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      • Küchen Werkzeug / Kitchen Tools
      • Maharam Agenda
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      • Windfall Light
      • A5/02 Philips-Twen
      • A5/03 Celestino Piatti and dtv
      • Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present
      • Dan Graham's New Jersey
      • Swarm
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      • Hannes Wettstein Seeking Archetypes
      • Distance and Engagement
      • Blindhædir
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      • Katharina Grosse. Wish I Had a Big Studio in the Center of the City
      • Lidschlag
      • Waters in Between
      • Designing Programmes
      • Nature Design
      • Super Normal
      • Five North American Architects
      • A5/05 Lufthansa and Graphic Design
      • Tree Nurseries
      • Louia Kahn; Drawing to Find Out
      • Hamsun, Holl, Hamarøy
      • Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan and Alessandro Poli
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      • You Are the City
      • Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007
      • Poemotion
      • Poster Collection 20 Help!
      • Unimark International
      • Corporate Diversity
      • Designing Universal Knowledge
      • Die gute Form
      • Transfer
      • Josef Müller-Brockmann
      • Poster Collection 3 Posters for Exhibitions 1980 - 2000
      • Scents of the City
      • Helvetica
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      • Findings on Ice
      • Helvetica Forever
      • Everything but the Walls
      • 8vo
      • Das Gesetz und seine visuellen Folgen
      • Insular Insight
      • Gigon / Guyer Architects
      • Steven Holl - Scale
      • Landform Building
      • Poster Collection 21 Paradise Switzerland
      • What You See
      • The Face of Human Rights
      • Who Owns the Water?
      • Reset - Beyond Fukushima

      Edited by the Museum of Design Zurich

      Poster Collection 20 Help!
      Appeals to Social Conscience

      Design: Integral Lars Müller
      2009 | English/German | 16.5 x 24 cm | 96 pages | 120 illustrations | softcover
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Thanks to their social effectiveness, posters have always been an ideal vehicle for addressing global and urgent ethical appeals to the populace.
This publication presents international posters since 1980 that urge us to take responsibility for humanity and the planet. While posters designed by artists to serve their own purposes tend to reflect a desire to enlighten and inform, posters for human rights and environmental organizations and relief agencies are direct attempts to stir individuals into action. In recent years, however, commercial enterprises have also discovered social and ecological engagement as a marketing tool with which to cultivate their image. This book illuminates the broad range of visual strategies and the rhetorical communication of social messages in posters.
For posters are as varied in their content, form, and expression as are the motivations and intentions of the clients who commission them.

ポスターは社会的効力のおかげで、常に大衆に向けて包括的で差し迫った道徳的訴求を扱うのに適した媒体だ。
本書は、1980年以降作られた、人類や地球に対して我々の意識を高めるよう促す国際的なポスターを紹介する。それぞれの目的に合うようアーティストがデザインしたポスターは、啓発、伝達するという情熱が反映されているが、人権や環境の団体、あるいは救済機関の為のポスターは、個人を駆り立てて行動へと向けるねらいがある。しかしながら、近年は営利企業もまた、自身の企業イメージ向上のためにマーケティングツールとして、社会的・環境的題材を扱い始めている。
本書中、ポスターの広範囲における視覚的戦略や社会的なメッセージを誇張して使用するコミュニケーション方法に焦点を当てる。
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