Catalogue Number
NMLH.2023.69.9
Object Name
Poster
Title
Globalism
Date
1972-1982
Description
The Poster Collective was a collective formed in 1971 at the Slade School of Art,  a group formed to initially produce posters in response to the miners strike and on the wars in both Vietnam and Ireland. It was formed on the basis of developing a coherent visual style, which addressed the political issues of the time. This included the armed struggles against colonialism in Africa, the struggle of women for equal rights and the continuing struggle against racism. The collective was active in the 70's and 80's, producing posters on a wide range of issues, including for educational purposes. The group was not-for-profit and used a variety of hand-printing techniques to create their posters. This poster is part of a set, 'Future Fictions', produced when the collective moved to the North London Polytechnic is a set of posters reflecting on technological development and leads us to address environmental issues of today. This is a black and white and pink poster. The top part of the
poster is an office where many people work together. Underneath the picture it says The room is now Global.In the bottom left corner a man has the earth inside his eyes. At the bottom of the poster it says Within a few generations the world has shrunk from a vast expanse that was largely unexplored to one in which there are electronic forms of contact between almost all human groups. Satellites circle the world transmitting information of events from one part of the globe to another. Multinational corporations plan and regulate production on a world scale shifting to new markets and places of production according to prevailing conditions. A company such as IBM is responsible for 60% of the world sales of large computers and has control of around 11.5% of the total world market in electronics. With annual sales of around $17 billion IBM is more powerful than many of the world's nation states.
