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| | Considered a master of 20th Century graphic design, Games was born Abraham Gamse in the Whitechapel neighborhood of London on the very day the First World War began. He was the son of a Jewish-Latvian, fine-art photographer Joseph Gamse, and a Russian-Polish seamstress Sarah. In 1926, His father anglicized their family name to Games. | | Considered a master of 20th Century graphic design, Games was born Abraham Gamse in the Whitechapel neighborhood of London on the very day the First World War began. He was the son of a Jewish-Latvian, fine-art photographer Joseph Gamse, and a Russian-Polish seamstress Sarah. In 1926, His father anglicized their family name to Games. |
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| | + | At the age of 16, Games left Hackney Downs School to attend the St. Martins School of Art now known as the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, in London. The costs and teaching styles at St Martins were not agreeable to Games, and he left following his second term after being told he had “no artistic talent.” |
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Revision as of 23:00, 18 September 2009
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- Games, Abram (July 28, 1914-August 27, 1996)
- Artistic Motto:” Maximum meaning, minimum means."
Considered a master of 20th Century graphic design, Games was born Abraham Gamse in the Whitechapel neighborhood of London on the very day the First World War began. He was the son of a Jewish-Latvian, fine-art photographer Joseph Gamse, and a Russian-Polish seamstress Sarah. In 1926, His father anglicized their family name to Games.
At the age of 16, Games left Hackney Downs School to attend the St. Martins School of Art now known as the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, in London. The costs and teaching styles at St Martins were not agreeable to Games, and he left following his second term after being told he had “no artistic talent.”
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