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Designmatters’ Human Rights Poster Project

James David Morgan wrote this post at 10:17 am on August 12th, 2008.

designmattersThis year marks the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights, and Designmatters is commemorating with a public education exhibition at UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris as part of the annual UN Department of Public Information/Non-Governmental Organization Conference.

Right to Bare Arms by Ani Gevorgian

The posters were designed by a hand-picked team of students at the Art Center College of Design (where Designmatters is a “college-wide initiative enabling students to develop “real-world” solutions to critical contemporary issues.”)

The work is impressive, and it’s sad that this “public education exhibition” will only be seen at the UN and (so far, at least) at only one gallery in California.

Check out the posters here.

Pictured above, Right to Bare Arms by Ani Gevorgian.

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