1980s/90s Classic Poster Postcard Set

1980s/90s Classic Poster postcard set - eight designs printed on postcards.

The 1980s and 90s in the UK were the time of Thatcher, mass unemployment, the Printers and Miners Strikes, and Poll Tax Rebellion.

Culturally, supported by a benefits system that allowed creative talent to bloom (and cheap transport), there was an explosion of music, alternative comedy, cooperatives and community theatre. Campaigns around the Miners Strike and the opposition to the Poll Tax in particular drove a spirit of solidarity and class consciousness throughout communities across the country.

Concurrently, new technologies, for example the launch of the first AppleMac, with its 6 inch screen and Pagemaker software, enabled a new method of design in posters and campaigning posters burgeoned.

We have reproduced some of those posters - posters we saw on many peoples' walls at the time, and included a selection of eight in this postcard set.

The images on these postcards are either digitally cleaned up to remove tears or stains etc, or completely recreated to be as close as possible to the original. Postcards come in sets of 8 designs, with space on the back for a stamp and an address. The postcards are A6 size (approximately 4.1 by 5.8 inches) and are printed on 350g postcard card.

Printed by the Radical Poster Collective, UK.