Heraldic Logos

The use of heraldic signs in modern logos can be both fascinating and dangerous. Many of financial institutions use the image of lion as a symbol of security. I keep an open mind about using such signs and use them with a lot of research about the vision of the company and the psychological impact of the sign on its customer.

After Postmodern; Poetry with juxtaposition of three posters.

Enugh is Enough; It's about time to change our global village! Posters articulating the message of Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street is a 21 century movement outside the old ideological frameworks of socialism, capitalism and all other "isms" in between. It is an statement in protest that the voices of "We the People" have been silenced for a long time, and finally, in 2008, the greedy Wall Street bankers nearly ruined the country. They were then bailed out by corrupt politicians, and soon the greedy bankers were back at it again. Meanwhile, average Americans who could not find a job were getting thrown out of their homes. The U.S. political system has become corrupt. Big corporations, lobbyists, and lawyers are taking advantage of the taxpayers.

On August 4, 1822, James Madison, one of the Founding Fathers of the US confederation wrote to W. T. Barry ;

A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

For far too long the governments of elites, no matter being popular or unpopular, have operated "without popular information," Occupy Wall Street and all the other cities around the globe aim to provide the governments with "popular information". People were told that Capitalism provides the most efficient way for generating wealth and its distribution. But, they are not told that in a true capitalism, there are no multinationals and monopolies. All businesses are small, operating in a level playing field, where the information is transparent, and available to everybody. A system in which there is no insider trading, no favoritism towards the big oil, the big pharmaceutical, the big banks, and so on.

In that system, no sociologists like Douglas Massey can find a phenomenon like in the United States that; the income gap between the richest and poorest has dramatically widened since the 1970s, resulting in a U-curve of increasing inequality, and no Census Bureau can find that;

the number of Americans living below the official poverty line, 46.2 million people, was the highest number in the 52 years the bureau has been publishing figures on it.

As Barry C. Lynn, director of the Markets, Enterprise, and Resiliency Initiative, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, in his book; Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction explains;

our political economy is run by a compact elite that is able to fuse the power of our public government with the power of private corporate governments in ways that enable members of the elite (to freely decide) who wins, who loses, and who pays.

and this is why the billionaire, Warren Buffett, complains that

My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.

Perhaps more importantly as Nicholas D. Kristof has argued in his New York Times op-ed column, Crony Capitalism Comes Home on October 26, 2011:

... In recent years, some financiers have chosen to live in a government-backed featherbed. Their platform seems to be socialism for tycoons and capitalism for the rest of us. They’re not evil at all. But when the system allows you more than your fair share, it’s human to grab. That’s what explains featherbedding by both unions and tycoons, and both are impediments to a well-functioning market economy...Capitalism is so successful an economic system partly because of an internal discipline that allows for loss and even bankruptcy. It’s the possibility of failure that creates the opportunity for triumph. Yet many of America’s major banks are too big to fail, so they can privatize profits while socializing risk.

The upshot is that financial institutions boost leverage in search of supersize profits and bonuses. Banks pretend that risk is eliminated because it’s securitized. Rating agencies accept money to issue an imprimatur that turns out to be meaningless. The system teeters, and then the taxpayer rushes in to bail bankers out. Where’s the accountability?

In fact, the Founding Fathers, like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were giving plenty of warnings about this state of affairs. Jefferson wrote to a friend in 1816:

I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President in a November 21, 1864 letter to Col. William F. Elkins foresaw the problem and wrote:

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.

President Grover Cleveland foresaw that Corporations "are fast becoming the people’s masters" in 1888. He wrote:

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear, or is trampled beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.

Even if in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, in his Union Address of 1902, "these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile" we still need to bring them under control and stop their corruptive influences. In the words of president Roosevelt:

Our aim is not to do away with corporations; on the contrary, these big aggregations are an inevitable development of modern industrialism, and the effort to destroy them would be futile unless accomplished in ways that would work the utmost mischief to the entire body politic. We can do nothing of good in the way of regulating and supervising these corporations until we fix clearly in our minds that we are not attacking the corporations, but endeavoring to do away with any evil in them. We are not hostile to them; we are merely determined that they shall be so handled as to serve the public good. We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth.

And now "We the People" are speaking through the action which is articulated in these posters.

A whale of a poster

Just like humans, whales are mammals, that give birth to babies whom they nurse. Like human nostrils, they have blowholes on their backs that allows to breathe air in the water.

The amazing fact is that a blue whale is the same size as a 737 Boeing aircraft. More amzing is that its tongue alone weighs more than a whole elephant! Gray whales migrate over 12,000 miles a year, this is how high you have to be to see the entire circular shape of the Earth.

Too bad that the Field Museum has not publicized the name of the graphic designer for these fine posters.

Steve Jobes
By: Guity Novin

Two beautiful Russian posters of Buster Keaton Movies

These Two Russian posters are favorites of mine, because of their minimalist yet powerful compositions,

Graphic Design, Tights From Luna & Curious

These witty graphic designs on Les Queues de Sardines, an original range of tights which are screen-printed by hand in limited quantities on a farm in rural France by Olivier and Marion.