PROCESS / FORMAT—LAMBDA PRINT ON GLOSSY DURAFLEX PLASTIC. SIZE—594MM X 841MM : QUANTITY—2 X 50 : DATE—01 / 2007 PUBLICATION—NEOGEO, ATLAS OF GRAPHIC DESIGNERS. EXHIBITION—HIROSHIMA / NAGASAKI WAR MUSEUMS. |
DESCRIPTION—COMMEMORATIVE POSTERS FOR THE 61ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE NUCLEAR ATTACKS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI. THE POSTERS ARE GRAPHICALLY SUBDUED TO REPRESENT THE SOMBER NATURE OF THE SUBJECT MATTER: SINGLE COLOUR, MINIMAL GRAPHICS, STATISTICAL LIST OF INFORMATION AND SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT OF TYPE ELEMENTS. THE TWO DOTS ARE HAND DRAWN IN MATTE WHITE PAINT MARKER TO CONTRAST WITH THE GLASS-LIKE HYPER-GLOSSY PLASTIC MEDIUM. THE DOTS REPRESENT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT CONCEPTS: THE TWO BOMBINGS, US/THEM, NUCLEAR FISSION, ... THE HAND DRAWN MARKER APPLICATION SYMBOLIZES THE HUMAN TRAGEDY OF THE BOMBINGS AND ADDS A NOTABLE ROUGH CONTRAST TO THE CLEAN TYPE TREATMENT. © 2012. |
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