Another Poster For Peace

I've been busy with the holidays here hanging out with family and playing Brady bunch with the lot, and especially not looking forward to going back to my student status as of tomorrow (in the form of conceptual work to kick start a new assignment).. So yeah, believe it or not, the blog wasn’t something I was planning to update.

However, I believe in the content of this post so much that it’s something I feel I have to blog about now, holidays or not. After all, it’s freakin’ peace. ☺ And it also happens to be strongly related to one of my major visual communication design genres - Print! (ta da!)

Anotherposterforpeace.org is "a group of citizens committed to elevating the level of public engagement in the peace movement through design. Our goal is to help create a grassroots "anti-campaign" to counter the brilliant marketing the U.S. administration is currently running to promote its war agenda.” (direct quote, click here for more). You can share posters for peace, or download them - all copyright free and really at no cost besides printing. There’s a lot of visual communication magic happening in those posters and I invite anyone interested in poster design to have a look at the different approaches. All very subtle yet powerful. As a designer, this was a great reminder that a campaign poster (and any good poster in general) has wit in terms of being very focused on the message (no extra doo dahs and studenty froo froo in an attempt at creativity) and saying so much with just the right type/amount of visual language. Every poster is so distinct that it’s quite a good study of poster design in general. (You can also download mini versions as postcards)

As usual here are some I’ve picked, very randomly as looking around it’s quite hard to judge a group as ‘the best’. There’s such a variety, I’d definitely say it’s worth the jump, so go have a look and spread the word if it means something to you too. :)