Poster Monday: Winter on Fire

Poster Monday: Winter on Fire

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Poster Monday: Winter on Fire

For this Poster Monday we featuring the poster “Winter on Fire” designed by Mia Polcyn from Los Angeles, USA. Mia is a junior graphic design major at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California.

“We recently were assigned to create posters for the Netflix documentary titled “Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom”. I was inspired by the iconography of the Independence Monument in Maiden Square, where most of the violence erupted in central Ukraine” tell us Mia.

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: Disinformation

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Poster Monday: Disinformation

For the last Poster Monday in October we present the poster “Disinformation” designed by Wes Karchut from Colorado, United States. He has been a fine artist for over 25 years. “Originally I worked exclusively in oils and now have moved almost exclusively to digital art. I am mostly self-taught as much as anyone is self-taught with all of the wonderful design content on the web (clearly a good use of technology). I am a Colorado native and worked in a number of boring business jobs, but always doing design work personally and professionally”.

We asked Wes about the concepts behind his “Disinformation” poster and this is what he tells us: “The concept behind my poster is the displacement of traditional media with social media along with its attendant addictive qualities. The upside down orientation reflects how our world view has likewise been turned upside down and our brains manipulated by deep, psychological means built into these social media platforms. The backstory on this poster was a poster contest that I never entered, but for which I designed this poster. The contest theme was “disinformation and new media” I don’t know how to solve the problem of disinformation and social media, but I do believe raising awareness through a poster and other means is a good first step”.

If you would like to follow Wes work visit his behance and Instagram acount. And remember to submit your posters to be featured in our coming editions of Poster Monday.

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Poster Monday: Viruses

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Poster Monday: Viruses

For the second Monday in October, we are presenting the “Viruses” poster that Alireza Vaziri Rahimi sent us from Texas in the USA. He´s is a Designer/Educator specializing in Graphic and Interactive Design. Currently, he is an assistant professor of Graphic Design at the University of Texas. Alireza earned his MFA degree in Design from University of California-Davis, and a bachelor’s degree in Stage Design from Tehran University of Art. He has received national and international design awards such as London International Creative Competition, Goethe-Institute, Graphis International Design award, C2A Creative Communication Award, etc.

About the poster “Viruses” Alireza tells us: “As graphic designers, we have a responsibility to our society, especially in this surreal pandemic. I designed this poster series because last year when we all had to wear masks and hide our faces to protect our health under these thin fabrics, we were witnessing the true self of our leaders! Masks instead of covering their face, are representing their thoughts more than ever”. “I believe Design is a way of changing the world to be a better place. A better world may have a different definition for different people: perhaps an ergonomic chair or an interface for a pioneer application, each can make one’s world a better place to live in. As designers, we have a responsibility to our society, and we should welcome challenges and mainly confront the inner voices telling us to “just mind yourself.” As per the legendary Persian poet Rumi: “I came to you without ‘me,’ so come to me without ‘you’.” In this journey, my greatest passion is to view and visualize the depth of a phenomenon beyond its existence. Nowadays, I aim to re-examine concepts such as propaganda in relation to design and our contemporary digital culture”.

Alireza has over a decade of professional and academic experience has equipped him with creative methods and collaborative skills in Visual Communication Design, if you want to know more about his work visit his site and his Linkedin and behance profiles. 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: 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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