Culture Making Articles items tagged postersCulture Making Articles:Writing on Christianity and culture from Andy Crouch2025-01-03T22:54:05ZCopyright (c) 2025, Andy CrouchExpressionEnginetag:culture-makers.com,2025:01:02An iconography of contagiontag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.18442025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.comNate: ?The National Institutes of Health has an online exhibition of 20th century health posters from various countries, key-coded by different common visual motifs (hands, mouths, skulls, rodents, sinister blobs). Many of the posters present an odd mix of informativeness and fear-mongering; quite a few traffic in stereotypes of disease and contagion (and diseased/contagious people) that read uneasily in the present day. This anti-TB admonition is one of the cheerier examples.?
]]>Your neighborhood signs, redesignedtag:culture-makers.com,2025:author/1.15182025-01-02T22:53:00Z2025-01-03T22:54:05ZAndy Crouchandy@culture-making.comAndy: ?Cardon Webb is a graphic designer who spends part of his (overly abundant?) free time redesigning handwritten signs in his neighborhood. Surely all of us who care about design have secretly wanted to do this. But it's interesting to read the handful of comments at the idsgn blog. Opinion is divided over whether the resulting designs are actually better than an urgent, scrawled message.?
Though he's now more known for his earnest interpretations of old-school political posters, designer Shepard Fairey first, of course, gained noteriety with his ironic/absurdist interpretations of authoritarian propaganda, with his Obey Giant viral campaign. Ironic and cool, in a particularly American sense that I both find attractive and uncomfortable, kind of the way I feel about ironic t-shirts after travelling in Africa and seeing them everywhere, courtesy bales of donated and resold used American clothing (shirt on a kid begging from me at the bus depot in Vilankulos, Mozambique: "There's only one thing to make for dinner: Reservations!"). The more I learn, the more I wonder about the effort we put into being connoisseurs of manufactured irony. There's real stuff out there that's so much more amazing.?
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