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Collect London 2012: a few more of your images

So many great images have been contributed to the Collect London 2012 project (see last post) that I couldn't resist putting a few more on the blog. Have a look at the Flickr group and add your own images from the last two weeks. The aim is to create an archive of photos that will preserve a snapshot of some of the more peripheral visual aspects of the London Games: Olympic-related signage,...
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Collect London 2012

We need your images for this project! Conversations with colleagues in recent weeks have turned to the question of how do you 'collect' the Olympic Games? In terms of graphics, there are certainly individual bits of printed design (posters, tickets and so on) from the London 2012 Games that can and should be accessioned by a museum of art and design.  But for an event so...
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Catherine Flood is a curator in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum specialising in posters, graphics and ephemeral print. She is the author of British Posters: Advertising Art and Activism (V&A Publishing 2012) and has also published on London Transport posters and nineteenth century print culture. She has recently set up a Subject Specialist Network for posters and is currently researching protest posters. 

Anisa Hawes is an assistant curator in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has worked closely with both the Posters collections and the Photographs collections; assisting with the exhibitions Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton - A Diamond Jubilee Celebration and Light from the Middle East - New Photography

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