Thursday 15 March 2012

Remedy II




Ryuichi Yamashiro (b. 1920)
Hayashi-Mori, 1955
(Forest – Grove)
One of the most famous Japanese posters, designed for a campaign to protect forests (Forest Protection Movement). The forest symbolized on the poster is made up of just two Chinese characters: "hayashi", more secular and "mori", which has more religious connotations. 
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