OSPAAAL Poster
OSPAAAL連帯ポスター / 1966–1990s / Style / Printmaking and Social Movements
Carries transnational solidarity with anti-colonial liberation movements through flat color, photography, iconography and short multilingual text.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Blazing flat color
- Multiple languages
- Symbolic iconography
- International solidarity
Best used for
- Single sheets calling for international solidarity that must read in several languages at once.
- Campaign material condensing a distant event into one image people can carry.
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Arrange three languages around one image without shrinking any of them.
- Composition
- One central symbol on a flat color ground, with no quiet margin left.
- Material
- Few screen colors, thin paper, folded flat enough to travel by post.
- Caution
- Do not consume revolutionary aesthetics as decoration, and name whose solidarity with which movement appeared in which medium. Stacking too many symbols keeps the meaning from reaching a distant reader at a glance.
- Further study
- OSPAAAL / Alfredo Rostgaard / Emory Douglas
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