Great story of the rediscovery of the keep calm and carry on poster… but missing where the big pop culture break-through happened. Someone must have placed it somewhere in the last decade that caused it to blow up. I can’t remember where I first saw it on the Internet, but the first place I saw it on the street was in a shop window on Fillmore in 2008 right after the Lehman Brothers collapse when everything seemed impossibly bleak and getting worse. It certainly seemed a fitting phrase.
Rob Walker (of the gone but not forgotten Consumed NYTMag column) looks into it’s history and remixing and pins some of it’s popularity on SF local SFGirlByBay.
The Story of Keep Calm and Carry On (by BarterBooksLtd) (via kottke)
Source: youtube.com
