SinkTheBreakwater.org’s propaganda poster show is a great idea. The problem? The propaganda

POSTER by MICHAEL WINCHESTER
There isn’t much propaganda in SinkTheBreakwater.org’s poster show, both in regard to the number of posters on the walls and the actual messages contained within them. What surely started out as a good idea—a contest inviting participants to submit posters in [...]

A collection of advertisements from postwar Poland reveals hidden messages

Teeming with clowns, zebras, thespians and ballerinas, post-World War II Polish posters look just like old posters—which is exactly what you should see. At first. Beautiful as these posters are—nodding to Peter Max’s vivid forms and colors, Fernando Botero’s luminosity—their pulchritude sometimes runs second to a [...]