{"id":29650,"date":"2013-01-08T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=29650"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:00:45","slug":"smartphone-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/social\/etiquette\/smartphone-etiquette\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want You&#8230;.To Put Away Your Smartphone: Propaganda Posters for the Modern Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, the use of &#8220;propaganda posters&#8221; were popular for encouraging good behavior &#8212; teaching safety, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/articles\/vintage-business-motivational-posters-from-the-1920s-1930s\/\">boosting worker morale<\/a>, and rousing wartime sacrifice. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the art and design of these posters, and decided to have Ted whip up a set of originals to address an area of behavior where modern society is often lacking: smartphone etiquette. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage propaganda poster for smartphone don't text. \" width=\"425\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11.jpg 425w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11-320x466.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29664 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-21.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage military propaganda poster for using smartphone in church. \" width=\"425\" height=\"619\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29663 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-31.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage military propaganda poster for smartphone using in public place with lower voice.\" width=\"425\" height=\"619\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29662 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-41.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage military propaganda poster for use of smartphone in movie theater.\" width=\"425\" height=\"619\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-51.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage military propaganda poster for use of smartphone on subway.\" width=\"425\" height=\"619\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29660 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-62.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage military propaganda poster for use of smartphone delivering important news.\" width=\"425\" height=\"619\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Posters illustrated and designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/storytellersworkshop.com\/\">Ted Slampyak<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, the use of &#8220;propaganda posters&#8221; were popular for encouraging good behavior &#8212; teaching safety, boosting worker morale, and rousing wartime sacrifice. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed the art and design of these posters, and decided to have Ted whip up a set of originals to address an area of behavior where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,318,6,42285],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-29650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-etiquette","category-featured","category-social"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11_blank-538x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11_blank-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11_blank-320x212.jpg","reactor-640":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/550-Poster-11_blank-640x424.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29650"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}