Poster Monday: Of Smoke and Pyres and Souls

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: Visiting Lecturer, Katharine Untch

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Poster Monday: Visiting Lecturer, Katharine Untch

For this Poster Monday spot we featuring the poster of Feixue Mei from United States. She is an interdisciplinary artist and an assistant professor at Northwest Missouri State University. Her creative practice and research have been recognized by PCA/ ACA Conferences, Transformative Works and Cultures, Printed Matter Art Book Fairs, Singapore Art Book Fair, Art and Education, International Design Award (IDA), Graphis, and Creative Quarterly. She earned an MFA in Design with a concentration in visual communications from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA in Graphic Design from Colorado State University, and a BFA in Visual Communications from Central China Normal University.

This poster was designed for a public lecture by Katharine Untch, a principal conservator and visiting lecturer. It was commissioned by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Northwest Missouri State University. This event was supported by Missouri Arts Council.
Fascinated by mass media and internet culture Feixue work explores diverse media such as publications, videos, performances, illustrations, comics, and installations, and examines how they may be used to address such contexts as globalization, cultural manipulation, language adaptation, intimate relation, as well as fluid identity.

If you take a look at her site, you will find a very interesting body of work.
Remember to submit your posters to be featured in our coming editions of Poster Monday.

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Poster Monday: Grammatical Nonsense

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Poster Monday: Grammatical Nonsense

Yixue Li (aka Ivy) is in our Poster Monday spot of the day with the poster “Grammatical Nonsense” She is a graphic and motion designer from China and based in New York, currently teaching at Parsons. Her design practice and research revolve around languages, linguistics, (mis)translations, and the gap between production and consumption. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BFA from University of Southern California. Yixue has won awards or presented her works at organizations such as AIGA NY, TDC, RGD, Communication Arts, Graphis, New York Art Book Fair, and Tasmeem Doha Biennial Art and Design Conference.

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is a sentence composed by American linguist Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book, Syntactic Structures, as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical. This poster aims to convey a linguistic concept in a visual form, and to establish the relationship between verbal and visual languages. It reminds us to be cautious with things whose form overpowers its meaning.

If you would like to know more about Yixue Li visit her web page. Stay around until we unveil the next spot Poster Monday spot. If you would like to submit a poster to be featured on Poster Mondays find all the info you need to participate in our submissions page.

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“E=empathy” Virtual Exhibition

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“E=empathy” Virtual Exhibition

Smith House Galleries, in collaboration with 150 Franklin Street Gallery, presents
e = empathy Virtual Exhibition. This poster exhibition was made by architectural design students from James Madison University to express through posters their feelings and speaking out for people in the Black Lives Matter Movement.

“Our goal was to release. Through so much racial strife and tension that is raging through our country. I felt our guys needed an outlet to use their design language to express what they were feeling and to speak out for people in the movement”.

Via Art Council of the Valley FB Page

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It’s Not Over: Posters and Graphics from Early AIDS Activism

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It’s Not Over: Posters and Graphics from Early AIDS Activism

Last year, Santa Monica Blvd hosted the temporary exhibition It’s Not Over: Posters and Graphics from Early AIDS Activism. The show amplifies voices of AIDS activists and community organizers by featuring a curated set of activist posters and images from mid 1980s to late 1990s selected from ONE Archives at the USC Libraries. While the exhibition is no longer on display, the powerful poster are available to view at the ONE Archives site.

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12 Black Artists/ 24 Protest Posters

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12 Black Artists/ 24 Protest Posters

Inspired by the protests against discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement, a dozen artists/designers put their creativity to use to design the campaign  “12 Black Artists / 24 Protest Posters.” Using simple typography and monochromatic designs, the posters are under a Creative Commons license and open to print and share for “free noncommercial use and adaptation – given the appropriate credit.”

Via Fine Acts 

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POSTER MONDAY: Count Every Vote

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POSTER MONDAY: Count Every Vote

Douglas May’s academic research focuses on utilizing the design process to yield solutions to increase social capital that bond, bridge, and link community relationships and by helping groups evaluate, conceptualize, sponsor, and plan required resources. His efforts have helped non-profit organizations plan and promote conventions, seminars, fund-raising, rallies, and other events. May’s on-going creative activities include a continuing professional practice for national, regional, and local corporate clientele. Over the last three years, his design work has been exhibited internationally by invitation from the Korean Society of Basic Design & Art, including gallery exhibits in; Seoul, Korea, London, England, Katowice, Poland, and St. Gallen, Switzerland. His recognition as an AIGA Fellow tops a long list of design awards for numerous career achievements over 40 years.

Count Every Vote is the poster that we are featuring for this Poster Monday edition and was created during the 2020 US Presidential Election. President Donald Trump continually discouraged voting by mail with an insistence that it encouraged voter fraud. The image is an interpretation of The White House, the official residence of the President of the United States. It is depicted as a US-style curbside mailbox with  its flag raised. The force-connected image is placed on a non-canceled postage stamp with the numeral 20. The raised red flag on a mailbox indicates that there is outgoing mail inside the box. Ironically, President Trump himself votes by mail. The message is clear that every legitimate vote should be counted – including all those that may have been cast by mail. In a free society, designers need to communicate political dissonance to improve our democracy. Freedom should never be taken for granted.

If you would like to find out more about Douglas May´s work visit his facebook 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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We Fight to Build a Free World Exhibition

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We Fight to Build a Free World Exhibition

Originally scheduled to open in March 2020, We Fight to Build a Free World is an exhibition curated by Jonathan Horowitz, a New York-based artist who for three decades has made work that engages critically with politics and culture. Under his direction, the exhibition looks at how artists have historically responded to the rise of authoritarianism and xenophobia as well as racism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of bigotry. The exhibition also addresses issues surrounding immigration, assimilation, and cultural identity.

Featuring more than 80 works of painting, sculpture, photography, and video, the exhibition includes examples of American social realism from the 1930s and 1940s and new works by Jonathan Horowitz, as well as 36 commissioned protest posters by contemporary artists, including Judith Bernstein, Marcel Dzama, Rico Gatson, Kim Gordon and Jason Smith, Cheyenne Julien, Christine Sun Kim, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Marilyn Minter. Also included are works by Asco, Huma Bhabha, Enrique Chagoya, Robert Colescott, Philip Evergood, Luis Jiménez, Rebecca Lepkoff, Glenn Ligon, Abraham Manievich, Bernard Perlin, Adrian Piper, Fritz Scholder, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Henry Sugimoto, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Max Weber, and Charles White, among others.

Via The Jewish Museum

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Underground Images Only by Women Artists

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Underground Images Only by Women Artists

Everyone in the design world is probably familiar with the ‘Underground Image’ series, SVA’s traveling exhibition of its iconic collection of subway posters. But now, a new exhibition puts the focus on the female side of this project. On view through January 3, 2021, at Auburn University‘s Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Alabama, “Underground Images: A Half-Century of SVA Subway Posters Created by Women” features 21 pieces hand-picked by Gail Anderson, SVA’s chair of the BFA Advertising and Design departments and creative director of the Visual Arts Press. This exhibition presents women artists’ highlighted works from the full collection of more than 200 posters produced by SVA. What do you think about these powerful designs?

Via SVA Page 

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2020 ELECTIONS: 100 years of Women´s Voting Rights

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2020 ELECTIONS: 100 years of Women´s Voting Rights

2020 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920. It was the first legislation for women’s voting rights. Not until the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 were voting rights of all women protected and enforced.

The Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote poster campaign, in partnership with the League of Women Voters, invites AIGA members to design nonpartisan posters to commemorate the beginning of 100 years of women’s voting rights, and to motivate the American public to register and turn out to vote in the 2020 election. This campaign aspires to not only support voter participation, but to also serve as a backdrop for dialogue and examination of the history of voting rights and women’s fight for equality.

Posters are available for download, printing, and distribution by anyone interested in supporting Get Out the Vote efforts, including nonprofit organizations, election officials, and the general public.

See more posters 

Via AIGA.ORG

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