Week 4 Update: Backwards appears to be the course for America, at least for now. While resistance on the left grows and the movement to stand up to this administration strengthens, the battle to inform, inspire, persuade, and motivate will only get more intense. It will be important that progress continues to speak truth to power just like it always has. Old is new again and these posters will keep doing what they originally intended — to give power to whoever posts them.
Trump/Fool
It’s been sort of a long time since I’ve made a political poster. Too long. Now in 2017, here’s the first of the resistance age:
An urgent, hasty, sketchy mess of a design. Scribbled over and over. Repetition you can feel. A whirlwind of speed to let you know I think this is just enough. This is all that needs to be shown. The point can stop here. With the mess of hair, the piercing eye slots, that cavernous mouth. Spewing forth chewed up words of lies and nonsense. Spitting on you. Spitting on me. With a simple 1-word association: FOOL.
Trump as the fool, the court jester, that laughing stock that wasn’t taken all that seriously until now he is. He fooled you, he fooled me, he fooled us all. Now with his endless Tweets of distraction intended to continue to fool us. To keep us from watching what’s really going on. He wants to fool us away from truth and away from each other. Divide. Confuse. Numb. He’s the greatest fool of our generation. Created to fool. With his fury unleashed at the top of the heap. We need to stay vigilant and we can no longer remain on the fooled end of a fool’s errand to the insulting of the highest office in the land.
We have been Trumped. Now what?
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Campaign Buttons!
Here’s a little side (Action Backed) project. We asked our friends to help us make some buttons. They are somewhat thematically tied to this year’s presidential election. Cody took the lead on this one.
Artists: Eric Nyffeler, Brett Stenson, Ellen Wilde, Steven Sczepanik, Murphy Phelan, Jonny Ashcroft, Orion Janeczeck, Matt Carlson, Justin Kemerling, Cody Peterson.
Fill out this form, we’ll send you 16 buttons.
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