Bard Graduate Center is a research institute for advanced, interdisciplinary study of diverse material worlds. We support the innovative scholarship of our faculty and students as well as resident fellows, guest curators and artists, and visiting speakers.

Naomi Games gave a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Wednesday, January 30, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “‘Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means’: The Life and Work of Abram Games.”

Abram Games (1914–96) was one of the twentieth century’s most innovative and important graphic designers, producing some of Britain’s most enduring images, which are now a fascinating record of social history. His career spanned sixty years during which he produced 300 posters as well as stamps for Britain, Jersey, and Israel, and book jackets and emblems, including those for the Festival of Britain (1951) and BBC Television (1953). Other clients included British Airways, the Financial Times, Guinness, Shell, and Transport for London. During World War II he was uniquely appointed Official War Poster Designer. It was Games’s personal philosophy of “maximum meaning, minimum means” that gave his works their distinctive conceptual and visual quality.