One of the most interesting aspects of the global #Occupy movement in my eyes has been the propaganda produced. The imagery of Occupy Wall Street has already become iconic, the Adbusters poster depicting the Wall Street bull and the question ‘What is our one demand?’ has been copied by international occupations that have sprung up. I visited Occupy London last week and noticed that there, many of the posters took aim at the coalition government there and utilised London landmarks for visual purposes.
Here at home, Occupy Dame Street has produced a number of posters which have appeared both around the city and online. Below are a number of my favourites.
‘Keep Calm And Carry On’ gets a very Irish reworking, while the physical scale of the building itself features too. With Occupy Dame Street being an ongoing event, more posters and leaflets are surely ahead.
I’m doing a lot of artwork and mostly robbing imagery wholesale from spanish creatives at vocesconfutura.http://vocesconfutura.tumblr.com/ I think they’d approve.
And the masks that have become so popular with protesters are owned by Time Warner…down with capitalism (while wearing it’s products)
No the masks are an initiative of protesters years ago. Amongst others the masks were and are still used by JDTV who have a channel on youtube.
i make mine (last 4)
the site itself looks great on camera – http://vimeo.com/30911788
particularly dave donnellans work like the jinx lennon piece linked. ec has a hand in this as well 😉