One of the fundamental points about a poster is the quick recognition of the message and it's a pity that designers of so many of the posters in this large-size paperback haven't really understood that concept. Too many of them put across a worthwhile idea in a confusing way, for example, 'Stop child labor' says it with rather unclear child-like lettering or 'A climate of control and a climate outa control' presents this message with coloured lettering in a near psychedelic painting.
All the rather bland and confusing posters show up several that I think really work and put the message across like Alexis Lovely 'hold hand guns', a yellow page with black type across the middle and the letters gun scribbled across. Elizabeth George cleverly combines a graphic and the statement: 'Climate change is not a myth' with the o of not turned into a globe and the down strokes of MYTH overlaid on chimneys belching black smoke. All Romani (from Tehran) uses fingerprints to create the profile of a dove with a piece of vegetation in its beak and 'Vote for peace' at the bottom of the poster.
The fifty posters have something for everyone of a liberal, leftish persuasion and the publishers had the clever idea of perforating all the posters so they can be removed easily for framing or stuck somewhere for others to see the message. The back of each poster has a credit and some background detail about the designer.
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