Bill Stickers
is Innocent
During February and March 2010, Zerofee worked with 25 Year One and Year Two FdA Design for Graphic Communication students at the London College of Communication, setting a ‘social’ poster design brief.
Students were asked to identify social and/or political causes and issues that strongly motivated them, research, then design and develop a poster that supported their chosen subject.
Although this site only presents some of our favourite work, we’d like to thank everyone who took the brief with us — we hope they enjoyed it as much as we did.
During the four week process, we maintained a Tumblr blog of related notes and references, which you can still see here.
To see the work and supporting detail in isolation, click any student’s name. Click a poster to scale it up to full screen.
Daniel Connal
In the last 10 years the government has launched an unprecedented assault on our civil liberties. Terrorism is used as propaganda to create an exaggerated sense of fear in order to erode our civil liberties. Photographers are now a target and can be held under a guilty until cleared policy.
I wanted my poster to warn the potential victims about these new laws and to open their eyes to this growing problem.
The poster is aimed at tourists and uses the colours yellow and black to imitate a warning sign. We must take a stand and refuse to be terrorised.
Max Wilson
Violence against women and HIV
Max Wilson
I took as my focus the link between Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS because although neither are "new" issues in isolation, raising awareness of the links between the two is an extremely urgent task, given that they are two of the biggest hurdles to alleviating poverty in the developing world.
It became apparent that my concept needed to focus on the physicality of the female body, that is, the site of (sexual) difference and the basis for oppression. The form of a snake figured through negative space proved the perfect visual solution as not only does the snake carry clear connotations of predation, masculinity and infection, but also the simplicity of its form could be used to signify a female body defined, restricted and attacked by, the male.
Nutcha Boonyamanond
Why do we not share blood to save lives, without thinking about racism? Although we have different skin colours, the colour of our blood is the same.
If we change our vision, we can give people the opportunity of life. It should not matter what colour we are, we are all the same colour inside. It should not matter where blood comes from as everyone can use it. Donate blood. You can save lives.
Elena Manfredi
The Twin Towers’ destruction in 9/11 lead to a series of actions perpetrated by the Bush administration that changed the world, once again highlighting cruelty to fellow human beings. For eight years, torture has been repeatedly inflicted by USA military forces in the name of counter terrorism, to detainees held without trial in Guantanamo prison camp and US airbase in Bagram, Afghanistan.
Documentation of these inhuman acts are in the public domain, names are well known, actions against them are still not taken. This poster is a call to President Barack Obama to stop the impunity and to establish a new direction for the image of the USA.
Rosa Murphy
The poster aimed to undermine the official 'inquiry' into the Iraq War. The Inquiry was not impartial as it was led by the same government that took Britain to war. Nobody was held accountable.
I portrayed the inquiry as a whitewash led to appease the British public on the eve of a general election. I established a relationship between the prisoners of war and the politicians who both had their 'hands tied'. The prisoners are literally bound and gagged and the politicians seemed bound by forces that prevented them from saying what is really going on or what really happened.
Stan Diers
Infotainment, refers to the marriage of information and entertainment, a global phenomenon seen across media, especially the news.
The sensationalism it creates allows the audience to be entertained rather than informed, and encourages passive consumption rather than the development of critical awareness of global events.
The bold style of this poster recalls the political posters seen in the 60s. It is a call for action, a collective voice saying – "we've had enough". The cross-eyed man, mouth wide open, stuffed with a burger-like stack of information playfully alludes news to fast food, which lacks nutrition and substance.