ACT UP Graphics

ACT UPのグラフィック / 1987–1990s / Style / Printmaking and Social Movements

The visual strategy of the AIDS-crisis direct-action movement: the pink triangle of SILENCE=DEATH, advertising's grammar seized for clarity, and free reproduction — activist graphics forged to advertising's strength.

The pink triangle inverted / Advertising grammar seized / Declarative typography / Free reproduction

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Dictionary entry

Best used for
Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
Type
Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
Composition
Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
Material
Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
Caution
Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
Further study
the Silence=Death Project / Gran Fury / its influence on public-health graphics

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