“Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age, 2001-2012” Exhibition
Pratt Manhattan Gallery
This event has ended.
As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression. From the confrontational and political, to the promotional, persuasive, and educational, the poster in all its forms has persisted as a vehicle for the public dissemination of ideas, information, and opinion. Posters are dissent made visible-they communicate, advocate, instruct, celebrate, and warn, while jarring us to action with their bold messages and striking iconography. Posters also serve as a telling indication of a graphic designer’s commitment to society when non-commissioned posters are created as vehicles to raise money to support political and humanitarian causes. Without a doubt, the poster remains the most resonant, intrinsic, and enduring item in the arsenal of a contemporary graphic designer.
Organized by Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston (MassArt) and MassArt Professor Elizabeth Resnick, Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age, 2001-2012 showcases a selection of 122 posters and offers the public a chance to experience this magnificent body of empathetic and visually compelling messages for our time.
A section of this exhibition will be on view at the Graduate Communications Design Exhibition Space, Seventh Floor, Pratt Manhattan Center.
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Schedule
from July 08, 2013 to August 28, 2013
Closing Reception on 2013-08-28 from 18:00 to 20:00