As my protest posters are going to be the voice of students I am looking more into the student protests that occurred in France in 1968. They were protesting against the increasing rise in unemployment and poverty. There was many anonymous posters produced and used in protest.
In Paris, on the 16 May, students and faculty staff took over the Ecole des Beaux Arts to establish the Atelier Populaire (the Popular Workshop). The organisation went on to produce hundreds of silkscreen posters in an unprecedented outpouring of political graphic art. In a statement, the Atelier Populaire declared the posters “weapons in the service of the struggle… an inseparable part of it. Their rightful place is in the centres of conflict, that is to say, in the streets and on the walls of the factories.”
The posters include strong messages and were creating using only one colour which made them more impactful and easy readable. I want to take some inspiration of this in my designs.
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