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Article: RED SOX NATION, THIS MEANS WAR; Somerville graphic designer's sports posters evoke WWII propaganda
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2007
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CITY WEEKLY / SOMERVILLE
Athletes like to say every game is a battle and every season a
war. It's a notion with which Somerville artist Chris Speakman has
no trouble identifying.
Though Speakman, 30, makes his living doing freelance graphic
design for local book publishers and a TV station, his true passion
is spending hours in his basement studio designing silk-screen
prints of the Boston Red Sox through his Sports Propaganda company.
The idea for the prints grew from his interest in the bold,
colorful aesthetics of World War II-era propaganda posters, combined
with a passion for baseball, especially the Red Sox. The warlike
rivalry between the Red Sox and New York Yankees also was an ...