Poster

From 16th-century plague warnings to bold HIV campaigns, posters reveal the power of graphic design to help shape public health messaging through time.

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Images of Poster

4 images from works
  • Hands holding working implements representing managing AIDS
  • Six ill people, with either AIDS or another disease, representing the difficulty of being sure that someone has AIDS.
  • Poster asking for blood donors
  • La Sequanaise poster from L'Etoile Restaurant, 30 Charlotte Street, London.

Images about Poster

86 images from works
  • M. T. Miciano, Spanien : Internationale Konkursausschreibung der Liga der Roten Kreuze.
  • Sharp sound clean smart : four HIV/AIDS and drug education posters commissioned by Mainliners Ltd. / Mainliners Ltd.
  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with explanation about the contamination risks of HIV infected women to their children through pregnancy and childbirth. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • A group of people stand on a rug that appears to float across a world map as they point to the circular design surrounding them bearing the title in Spanish: 'Poster exhibition: 1985-1995' [in Madrid]; an advertisement by Salud y SIDA. Colour lithograph by Ana Capitaine, 1995.
  • A street scene with a tall man offering snuff to a short, fat man. Coloured etching by W.P., 1827.
  • Sanitation field worker in Lesotho
  • Estampes, affiches, dessins originaux, tableaux / Pierrefort.
  • A man is standing on a ladder, with a pot of paste on the ground as he sticks a poster to the wall. Etching by the Comte de Caylus and engraving by E. Fessard, 1742, after E. Bouchardon.
  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with a translation explaining what AIDS is. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • [British Red Cross Society greetings card of recruiting poster by Norman Rockwell asking people to "Join the Red Cross"].

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