A poster supporting the movement for freedom of women of Iran.
Poster, 100×70 cm
2022 © Nicola-Matteo Munari
The construction grid of the poster
is made up of 112.000 micro-modules, each one with a side of 0,25 mm.
2022 © Nicola-Matteo Munari
is made up of 112.000 micro-modules, each one with a side of 0,25 mm.
2022 © Nicola-Matteo Munari
Reverse coloured version
of the poster.
2022 © Nicola-Matteo Munari
of the poster.
2022 © Nicola-Matteo Munari
In Autumn 2022 I have been officially invited to support Woman,Life,Freedom—the movement for the liberation of women of Iran—by contributing with a poster that is intended to be displayed in a collective exhibition with those submitted by other designers.
Many important artists, painters, illustrators, and graphic designers from all other the world participated in the project, including Armando Milani, Shin Matsunaga, Michael Vanderbyl, Isidro Ferrer, Leonardo Sonnoli, Mervyn Kurlansky and Niklaus Troxler. In this way a single, powerful statement, expressed through many different voices, has been boldly raised in support of civil rights and against tyranny.
After taking into consideration various ideas that were related to the most symbolic images of the fight for freedom in Iran, I have decided to design a typographical poster, therefore without using any illustration or photograph, in order to maximise the message itself to be communicated.
To better approach the design of the poster, I have researched the history of graphic design and in particular that of posters that were designed to promote peace and freedom, choosing as an emblematic example the one conceived in 1969 by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, titled War is Over!, not copying it or simply changing the text, but evoking it with a poster that is made only of text, black on white.
Since the message to be communicated through the poster is of great importance, I thought there was no need of anything else except the text of the message itself, graphically rendered in a way that is visually strong, clear and impactful.
Proportions, alignments, sizes and positions among the letters have been carefully calibrated by designing a modular grid system made of a total of 112.000 micro-modules that allowed to build the entire typographic geometry in a very accurate and rigorous way.
The result is a poster supporting freedom of women in a powerful and straightforward way, visually making no compromises about the importance of the message and the need for this struggle.
—Nicola-Matteo Munari
Many important artists, painters, illustrators, and graphic designers from all other the world participated in the project, including Armando Milani, Shin Matsunaga, Michael Vanderbyl, Isidro Ferrer, Leonardo Sonnoli, Mervyn Kurlansky and Niklaus Troxler. In this way a single, powerful statement, expressed through many different voices, has been boldly raised in support of civil rights and against tyranny.
After taking into consideration various ideas that were related to the most symbolic images of the fight for freedom in Iran, I have decided to design a typographical poster, therefore without using any illustration or photograph, in order to maximise the message itself to be communicated.
To better approach the design of the poster, I have researched the history of graphic design and in particular that of posters that were designed to promote peace and freedom, choosing as an emblematic example the one conceived in 1969 by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, titled War is Over!, not copying it or simply changing the text, but evoking it with a poster that is made only of text, black on white.
Since the message to be communicated through the poster is of great importance, I thought there was no need of anything else except the text of the message itself, graphically rendered in a way that is visually strong, clear and impactful.
Proportions, alignments, sizes and positions among the letters have been carefully calibrated by designing a modular grid system made of a total of 112.000 micro-modules that allowed to build the entire typographic geometry in a very accurate and rigorous way.
The result is a poster supporting freedom of women in a powerful and straightforward way, visually making no compromises about the importance of the message and the need for this struggle.
—Nicola-Matteo Munari
Client
Woman,Life,Freedom
Movement
Promoter
Morteza Majidi
Design
Nicola-Matteo Munari
Assistant
Daniela Arabia
Project Date
2022
Woman,Life,Freedom
Movement
Promoter
Morteza Majidi
Design
Nicola-Matteo Munari
Assistant
Daniela Arabia
Project Date
2022