100 posters standing for Freedom
of Expresssion, selected by 9 great designers including Malte Martin, Marjane Satrapi, Woody Pirtle, Alain Le Quernec and Pierre Bernard. Chosen amonsgt 1834 posters from 67 countries around
the world, these posters have been shown worldwide in a series of 24 events (including the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Design House in Stockholm and the Triennale di Milano), all opening
on December 10th 2009 to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The ballpen hand-written type
was for me the best way to evoke
a personal voice against censorship. These large hand-written pages drawn to scale evoke the effort to protect Freedom of Expression,
and the disproportion of the fight between the personal voice and censorship itself.
This particular case uses anamorphosis. When the reader changes his angle of reading, the sentence “Big Brother is watching you” becomes readable. The general idea of this particular dialogue
is to evoke the constant pressure
of censorship despite individual attempts to avoid it, and a history
of fighting it (“Il est interdit d’interdire” was one of the main slogans of the May 68 French students riots). The reader reveals these different layers of reading and understanding. He is active and involved in the process of reading information.
