LIPPA PEARCE

WORK THE METAPHOR

BY Harry Pearce

Designed by Harry Pearce, which is half of the Lippa Pearce team, I think however they left to join Pentagram.

This is a poster for the 'Children at War' series and was designed for Witness, a non-profit organisation that tries to opens peoples eyes to human right violations. This poster has been designed so effectively in order to communicate exactly what Witness want. For me when I saw the poster I immediately knew what it was about.

The typography is crisp, and has a strong impact- it has been placed to be the immediate focus point, with the simple change in colour for the end of the word the meaning is twisted and opens up the intended meaning of the poster. We see just this stark photo of a boy holding a gun, just a child and we know he has been forced into war, infantry, a soldier at the front line.

The colours used are important, just red and gray scale used it creates a serious tone, and a colour pallet that you would expect from a poster showing the brutality of war, and the unfairness of it. Things that you would connect, war and red- blood, this makes the image ever more terrible seeing just this young child being put through this.

BY Domenic Lippa

Once again we have this raw image, where the work truly speaks for itself and portrays the exact message of Macbeth, this bloody, murderous series of events.

Working just using the blood splatters to create the negative space of the type. The type is subtle yet at the same time, it is so striking. On first glance you know exactly what is being conveyed, pretty much everyone knows of Macbeth- and I'm sure that this was taken into account as even if you didn't know you could imagine. For all those who know what the play is about, it creates this grim simple poster that brings you back to the legendary part of trying to wash the blood of his hands.