Thursday evening, December 9th in Shattuck Hall at 6pm. Joint talk with Architecture Department.
Editor Edward Morris will speak about his book, Green Patriot Posters, the book includes work by: Shepard Fairey, Michael Bierut, DJ Spooky, James Victore and Geoff McFetridge.
About the book: This book brings together the strongest contemporary graphic designcurrently promoting sustainability and the fight against climate change.Collectively, essays by Michael Bierut, Steven Heller, Edward Morris and Dmitri Siegel look back in time to posters and ideas that set the stagefor the current movement (World War Two posters, images of internationalcooperation, posters from the environmental movement in the 1960s and1970s),and address the state of the poster: what is the efficacy and mode ofdistribution for purposeful, message-oriented graphic images today?
Thomas L. Friedman advocates for "a redefined, broader and more musculargreen ideology that can be the basis of a new unifying politicalmovement for the twenty-first century." The bulk of the book is given over to acompilation of the best posters on the theme of sustainability by avariety of contemporary artists (both emerging and established), among themShepard Fairey, Michael Bierut, DJ Spooky, James Victore and Geoff McFetridge.These posters, which have a strong graphic presence and which never rest onthe tired slogans of the past ("Save the Earth," etc.), show that graphicdesign does not passively respond to the zeitgeist—it helps shape it.
The book, which is sustainably printed in the U.S., reproduces 50 of these postersas tear-outs. Also included is a section on action, with documentation ofdesigns at work in the world: on buses, billboards, protesters' placards, graffiti, t-shirts and so on. This movement is about a new form of patriotism, one that exhibits pride of place, but not fear of others.
Jaeger Rae Cohen represents Moore College of Art & Design with "White Trash".
Posted by: Rachel Gibbons | December 02, 2010 at 06:55 PM