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Here at Lightship we’re keen on good communication design and most things nautical. Never have the two been combined in such a weird and wonderful way as they were with the ‘dazzle ships’.
During the first world war, to protect shipping from the torpedoes of lurking submarines, naval officer and artist Norman Wilkinson hit upon the idea of painting the ships in crazy stripes of dazzling colours. The design idea was that you can’t hide a ship but you can confuse the enemy as to which way it’s going and where the bow and the stern are.
Consequently, a whole navy of Britain’s best graphic designers were pressed into service to concoct a wide gamut of ‘dazzle’.
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