{"id":25953,"date":"2011-02-26T00:59:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T08:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=25953"},"modified":"2011-02-26T02:49:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T10:49:52","slug":"make-jobs-still-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/25953","title":{"rendered":"‘Make Jobs,’ still free"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former student takes design class. Former student notices my work in his textbook. Sends me an email. Photo, above.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mike Dunkl spotted my 2003 ‘Make Jobs Not War’ poster in his copy of Design Basics: 8th Edition<\/a><\/em> – with some academic text explaining how my visual works (below). Aside from the pencil illustration, I lifted the gothic type<\/a> directly from a 1912 American Type Founders specimen book. (The green color means ‘money,’ btw) (And there are two ls in ‘mehallo’)<\/p>\n

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In 2003, jobs were drying up and we were about to go to war on some really flimsy evidence.<\/em> I felt I had to say something, so I did. My poster – among others – became available for free download at Another Poster For Peace.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the time, anti-war statements were not the popular<\/em> thing. Though for me, it was the right<\/em> thing to do. When the war started, I was following a young Iraqi’s ‘live from Baghdad’ blog up until he stopped posting. Never knew what happened to him – another innocent lost to history.<\/p>\n

I still stand behind my poster. Evidence of why we ended up in Iraq in the first place<\/a> has turned out to be far more flimsy than imagined  . . .  and today, we’re still at war. And the jobs have simply gone away.<\/p>\n\r\n\t

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