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Post by redwhitemt on May 14, 2009 22:52:45 GMT 1
In reply to bertrand comment:
Why should this be relevant to design? Not wanting to be political in any way.
Politics apart, we think it's interesting to keep the community updated with such updates that people might have missed. The project isn't intended to just feature revolutionary design.
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Post by renalicious on May 15, 2009 17:05:05 GMT 1
I think this is very relevant to design.
Politics and communication have always been inextricably linked - Alfred Leete's Lord Kitchener poster and its American counterpart featuring Uncle Sam, come to mind immediately. What about the Soviet hammer and sickle or the swastika? More recent examples? How about M&C Saatchi's 'New Labour New Danger' poster, featuring Tony Blair with devil eyes?
This imagery is so successful because it provides the perfect visual summary of the ideals it is trying to communicate. The fact that we can stand back and admire this symbolism's ability to communicate ideals that may be contrary to our own beliefs, is something that personally, I find fascinating and very worthy of discussion.
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Post by jimmygrima on May 17, 2009 14:01:21 GMT 1
I think by taking the emblem of PN emblem (omitting other emblems of political parties) and compare it with this famous poster of Alfred Leete's to join the army ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Leete), the Soviets the sickle or the swastika... is you are leaving a lot of how stunning and political graphic designers are by their posters or logos... You should also as administrator of a blog which is dealing with arts and openness of the mind look more outside the box then featuring the PN emblem. I agree that is totally irrelevant in this sense. By choosing to feature this emblem you automatically took a stand because you left the other emblems of political parties out. Graphic Designer should look at other political campaings.... the Center for Study of Political Graphics does not feature any political emblem... even MC DONALD'S have a fantastic logo which is striking and its so strong that it makes people eat shit.... However I don't think that we should feature it.... www.politicalgraphics.org/home.html
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Post by caligari on May 18, 2009 8:40:50 GMT 1
You should also as administrator of a blog which is dealing with arts and openness of the mind look more outside the box then featuring the PN emblem. I agree that is totally irrelevant in this sense. By choosing to feature this emblem you automatically took a stand because you left the other emblems of political parties out. I think it's YOUR comment actually who's giving this post a more partisan look. And what stand, in your opinion, did redwhitemt actually take? There could be foreigners visiting the blog/forum... should we include the political party logos of their country of origin as well? This all boils down to the pedanticism of political correctness - which some seem to overdo.
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Post by redwhitemt on May 26, 2009 19:07:53 GMT 1
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