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SELECTED BYKATHERINE MCCOYHIROSHIMA APPEALSDESIGNED BYKUNIOMI UEMATSU
This poster by the Japanese graphic designer Kuniomi Uematsu was part of the influential Hiroshima Appeals series of Japanese peace posters against nuclear war directed to an international audience.
The nonverbal communication of this poster’s powerful imagery is masterful. Because of its global audience, the message cannot depend on words from any one language and must communicate using symbols. Visual symbols are more widely understood than verbal texts from specific languages, so symbolic images are important tools for communications designers.
This poster is not beautiful in the conventional sense, but to me (a perpetual student of visual communication) it is beautiful ...
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