Poster Monday: Handwashing is a weapon against the “Corona”

Poster Monday: Handwashing is a weapon against the “Corona”

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Poster Monday: Handwashing is a weapon against the “Corona”

For this Poster Monday we present the “Handwashing is a weapon against the Corona” poster designed by Atefeh Biajian. She is a graphic designer and teacher and an international poster designer from Iran. She is a member of the Visual Arts Association and has won several international awards in poster design.

Respiratory viruses, such as coronavirus (COVID-19), are spread when saliva or droplets infected with the virus enter your body through your eyes, nose, or throat. This often happens through your hands. Hands are one of the most common ways viruses are transmitted from person to person. In a global epidemic, one of the cheapest, easiest, and most important ways to prevent the transmission of the virus is to repeatedly wash our hands that protect us against the virus. Frequent hand washing is a weapon against the virus.

Don’t forget that you can send us your poster to appear in this section using our submission page.

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Poster Monday: Of Smoke and Pyres and Souls

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Poster Monday: Of Smoke and Pyres and Souls

The second Poster Monday spot of the month belongs to Martin Mendelsberg, he is an American designer that has been making posters for twenty years they are inspired by social, political, technological, and cultural issues. Martin have been inspired by designers from all over the world especially because of new media and social networks. He also has worked as brand experience designer and taught at colleges and universities in American and New Zealand for fifty years. His work has been exhibited internationally in Australia, New Zealand, China, South Korea, Germany, France, Poland, Ecuador, Russia and in the United States. The designer’s work is represented in permanent collections at The Magma Museum, Macerata, Italy, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany, The Museum of New Zealand, Victoria University School of Architecture, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Yale University: Haas Arts Special Collections, The Florida Holocaust Museum, The Mizel Museum, Greeley Holocaust Observance Committee and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. His Hebrew typeface designs, Torah and Torah Neue are distributed by Masterfont Ltd in Tel Aviv, Israel.

The poster “Of Smoke and Pyres and Souls” addresses the issue of Covid disaster in India has been at the top of the news, India’s people have suffered shortages of oxygen, tanks, and protective equipment. Posters are the voice of my conscience, watching so many people die sparked this poster. The metaphors are direct, oxygen tanks clustered together like human bodies, funeral pyres emitting dense smoke up into the sky and a distant flag of India in the background. The overall arrangement creates a dense cityscape desperately trying to breathe. “Poster art is a storytelling art much like poetry, I believe the metaphors in my poster have the capacity to create a call to action for a desperate situation” says Martin.

If you would like to learn more from Martin’s work visit his website, and remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Poster Monday: COVID-19 outbreak

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Poster Monday: COVID-19 outbreak

The Poster Monday spot of the day belongs to Chun-Ta Chu, a graphic designer from Taipei, Taiwan for his posters “COVID-19 outbreak” He, is a skilled and creative graphic designer based in Taipei.
Chun-Ta specializes in branding, visual identity, editorial design, binding, packaging, printing and post-press finishing. With a diverse and broad experience in design service, he has been working with a wild range of clients, also willing to explore the possibility of collaborating with people from multidisciplinary specialties.
Winning numerous iconic international design awards ranging from Europe, America and Asia, his works have been honored including ADC Art Directors Club of New York, GDC Award Graphic Design in China, Golden Bee Global Biennale of Graphic Design, Taiwan Top Star Awards, and shortlisted for CA Communication Arts Typography, CGDA Visual Communication Design Award, Lahti International Poster Triennial, Hong Kong International Poster Triennial, China International Poster Biennial, Biennial of Poster Bolivia BICeBé, Chun-Ta’s works have also been featured in publications such as IdN, Sandu Publishing, Designer Books, GTN9 etc.

The posters “COVID-19 outbreak” they are a sample of the work of Chun-Ta Chu, He is adept at converting abstract concepts into symbols such as geometric elements, applying in visual demonstration and communication design, composing both artistic and commercially applicable pieces to bring out the uniqueness of identity.

If you would like to find out more about Chun-Ta Chu ´s work visit his personal behance account.
Remember that all submissions to Poster Monday are considered each week. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured find all the info you need in our submissions page, facebook and instagram.

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Poster Monday: Isolation

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Poster Monday: Isolation

This Poster Monday spot of the day goes to Raqee S. Najmuldeen, born in Baghdad/ Iraq. He is graduated from University of Baghdad with MA in graphic design and then completed PhD at University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in 2012. Currently I work as an assistant professor at the College of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad, and teach undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Raqee have four papers in English published on design and  three books on art and design, one in English (Surreal Photography and Effective Advertising, on Amazon) and the two other in Arabic language. His design has been featured more than once in Photoshop Creative, Practical Photoshop, Hall of Fame and Photographize magazines.

The poster featured above entitled “Isolation” talk us about how the world has faced a big, unexpected problem, which is Coronavirus. As a result, people’s fears increased. The media contributed greatly to terrorizing this issue. The issue was mixed with politics, and the countries started accusing each other about the origin of this virus. And we became confused and as a result, our home became a shelter, which we have no solution without. Therefore, this poster came as a critic to raise awareness of the dangers of this topic, the dangers of exaggerated fear of the virus. Used the visual metaphor, and took advantage of the myth that if an ostrich was afraid, it would bury its head in sand. The ostrich here symbolizes the fearful world that does not know what is going on around, is it a conspiracy or not. Instead of sand, a floor appears here from different icons, including mobile phones and net, to indicate social communication…, while the background appears in the Coronavirus pattern. “Burying our heads with sand does not solve the problem. We have to face it and think of effective solutions” tell us Raqee.

Stay around until be unveil the next Poster Monday and remember to submit your posters to be featured in our coming editions of Poster Monday.

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Poster Monday: Christmas 2020

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Poster Monday: Christmas 2020

For the first Poster Monday spot december we are featuring a poster from Tomaso Marcolla. He is graduated from the Art Institute of Trento (Italy) and started working as a graphic designer in 1985. “The first cartoons dates to the ‘90s and they were realized with traditional techniques, namely watercolor, pen, collage. My first poster, already rewarded in a competition, was called “Peace talks”, it dates to 1999 and it was realized with pen on paper.

Afterwards the technique evolved with the diffusion of “digital”. The technique of realization changes, but the inspiration always comes out in the same way: a piece of news, a social problem, an event which impressed me particularly. Successively, I try to reproduce it through my art with the aim to intrigue and to stimulate reflection. I even choose to represent tragic events, but never violently”.

About the Christmas 2020 poster Tomaso tells us: “Our life has been conditioned by the spread of Covid-19 for many months now. We got used to see graphs, which show the progress of infection and we always hope to see it decreases. There is one graph which became the symbol of the Corona virus pandemic, it is called “flatten the curve”. It demonstrates, in a simple and intuitive way, the importance to slow down as much as possible the spread of an epidemic, so that the health system can assist all patients preventing the collapse.

For Christmas I created the shape of a Christmas tree, which reminds a graph, whose line, after having reached the peak (symbolizing the star), goes finally down. This image reflects what we all are hoping for: the decrease of infection cases”.

The topics of my art works are the values which characterized my daily life, such as the solidarity, the non-violence and the environmental protection, which I try to represent in an original way, in order to stimulate curiosity, reflection and thinking, always with a connection to the present.

If you would like to learn more from Tomaso’s work visit his web page, and remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook.

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Poster Monday: Hope

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Poster Monday: Hope

From Stockholm, Sweden and Thessaloniki, Greece, Nicos Terzis is our first Poster Monday featured designer of the day. Nicos is a visual artist based between two cities; he received a MFA´s in Graphic Art, Poster and Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland during the late 80s. Mainly Nicos works in his studio, and sometimes also teach printmaking and graphic art. In my practice, he focus mainly on painting, printmaking and illustration, but one of his central interests are definitely posters, and in particular, those with a socio-political message.

Nicos tell us about his poster “Hope”, I always like to open dialogues through my posters and I really think the best posters are the ones that don’t need to be explained in terms of what they want to tell. The message should be direct and the penny should hopefully drop at the first glance. The poster is a special form of creation because it unites social commitment with our individual experience. It also has a unique way of presenting itself. Traditionally, artworks are exhibited in spaces that oblige us to respect and appreciate the exhibits. Such as galleries, museums, churches, etc. There they are safe and keep the visitor at some distance. The poster on the other hand is the first artistic medium to have rejected this privilege. So, we can regard it as a precursor to art in terms of exhibiting in a public space e.g. squares streets etc. Also, the poster is a form of diagnosis/identification of what a society might suffer from….

Remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page, and facebook. If you would like to see more projects from Nicos Terzis visit his personal blog page.

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Optical illusion posters urge you to wear a mask

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Optical illusion posters urge you to wear a mask

Israel-born, London-based graphic designer Noma Bar created a series of striking posters for World Mask Week to encourage people to mask up order to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Using his iconic ability to to create double-meaning graphics using optical illusions, Bar’s posters features face masks as a necessary asset to be able to go engage in different activities, from going to the salon to buying a coffee or going on a cruise vacation, along with the tagline “Back to normal is up to you, Wear a mask.” The illustrations were made viral after author and puzzle constructor Eric Berlin tweeted them.

via designtaxi.

 

 

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Poster Monday: Stay Home

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Poster Monday: Stay Home

The last Poster Monday spot of October entitled “Stay Home” belongs to Filippos Fragkogiannis from Athens, Greece. He holds an MA in Visual Communication, and a BA in Graphic Design from Vakalo Art & Design College and the University of Derby. Having collaborated with acclaimed graphic and type designers, in 2019 he established his own practice. His research-based approach is rooted in semiotics, symbolism and the structure of visual language. With a genuine passion for typography, Filippos designs posters, print collateral and visual identities. Is member of AIGA and ISTD since 2020.

About “Stay Home” Poster, following the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, Poster Jam’s monthly challenge featuring the word “Home” took on new dimensions. This poster was widely circulated on the web and submitted to various Covid-related design initiatives around the world. The light blue color marks a health and hygiene emergency by closely relating to the color used for water, sterilization and hygiene representations. The poster’s visual impact is subtle while eliciting reliability, acceptance and safety to the viewer. For conveying the message, the widely recognizable font Helvetica is applied on a large scale. Its use relates to the simplicity of the instruction, communicated on a global level, calling for vigilance and adherence. The illustration of crossed arms, found in the letter B of Typefesse Pleine, represents the body part that should be thoroughly disinfected according to state instructions. The gesture of crossing arms can be seen as defensive body language while the form of the letter is reminiscent of a house roof or a bird’s wings, both referencing the notion of safety.

If you want to find out more about Filippos Fragkogiannis visit his website.

Remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page and facebook.

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Poster Monday: PacVid

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Poster Monday: PacVid

For the third Poster Monday of September we have a poster from Luis Antonio Rivera Rodríguez. He was born in Puebla, Mexico. He is graduated from the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla. Master in Marketing Among the positions and functions developed are: coordinator, teacher and thesis advisor in the Graphic Design degree at the Higher School of Sciences and Humanities Puebla, co-founder of the monokromatic graphic studio.

Covid 19 has become a recurring theme in all the media and the poster that we present is thought about the situation we are experiencing in the world, where we are in confinement and we can only go out to do essential things and within these routes we can also contract this virus so it was thought that we are playing a game where the most important thing is to stay at home so as not to be reached by it, the pacman game was taken as an element since it has a lot of reference to what we are going through these days, they were added elements to refer to the fact that we should stay at home to help ourselves not to contract this disease. “I believe that poster design, if used well, can be a very good communication tool, as is the poster that, despite the years, is still in force and continues to fulfill its function, which is to give a message” tell us Luis.

If you would like to find out more about Luis Antonio Rivera’s work visit her behance and web page. Remember to submit your poster for the next edition of Poster Monday. Find all the info you need in our submissions page and facebook.

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Poster Monday: Wisdom and Strength

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Poster Monday: Wisdom and Strength

For the first Poster Monday spot of the day we are featuring a graphic designer from Zacatlan, Puebla, Jorge González Morales. He was born in Zacatlán, Mexico, a lover of art and letters, he is passionate about drawing eyes, graphic designer from the “Universidad de Oriente del Estado de Puebla (UO)”, currently a professor at the “Universidad Alianza Hispana” in Chignahuapan., Puebla., Mexico, in the careers of Graphic Design, Advertising and Marketing, also teaching some subjects in the Gastronomy Degree, he makes political cartoons for regional media in Zacatlán and Tlaxcala on television and radio. Active member of the International Design collectives; Red Internacional de Creadores Visuales A.C., Mexico, of Borderless Graphic Designers in Canada and the PosterIran collective in Iran.
His specialty is the poster and illustration, it has been published in various countries such as: Peru, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Thailand, Spain, Malaysia, China, Peru, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Switzerland, Cuba, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Bolivia, Iran, Venezuela, Ecuador, Italy, Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay, has served as jury of poster contests for countries such as: Taiwan, Malaysia and Mexico.

The poster we are featuring here today entitled “Wisdom and Strength” was designed for the event “The worm of the city”, in China; exhibition against Covid-19, the intention of the image was to show that ancient wisdom of Chinese culture through a representation like the dragon and through the force that it carries its genetics as a country to face COVID-19.

If you would like to know more about Jorge González Morales and his work you can follow his web page and instagram.

Remember that all submissions are considered each week. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need in our submissions page, facebook.

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