“Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades” 

Abram Games’ “Your Talk May Kill Your Comrades” (1942) is a powerful World War II poster made to warn soldiers that speaking carelessly could put others in danger. The image shows a soldier’s head with circles coming from his mouth that turn into a sharp weapon, stabbing three other soldiers. This strong picture sends a clear message without using many words. Games believed in using simple designs to say big things, and this poster is a great example of that. It’s important in the history of graphic design because it showed how pictures and ideas could be combined in a smart, simple way to send a strong message, which became a big part of modern design.