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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. 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.” He found work at the Askew-Young design firm as a studio boy between 1932 and 1936; he found time to take life drawing classes at night school. A second-place award in 1934 in the Health Council Competition followed by a first prize in the London City Council Competition the subsequent year set him on his path as a freelance artist. Games was just establishing his own studio when WWII began. He served in the British Army as a private in the infantry, where he spent the bulk of his time drawing training maps, a job both he and his superiors found him painfully unsuited for. Contact
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