Jonathan Barnbrook is a British graphic designer and typographer. A major recurring theme of Barnbrook’s graphic design is political work and work with a social conscience. He makes powerful statements about corporate culture, consumerism, war and international politics. He describes as a major influence to his work ‘an inner anger which is a response to all the unfairness that is in this world’.
I posted two political animations created by Jonathan Barnbrook here. The artist uploaded his works on Youtube website, enabling people globally to view his works.
The first one is titled “global…”, 2004. A very simple idea putting over the message that globalization leads to banality. The style of animation is internationally slow. It represents the opposite of the fast, paced advertising messages we normally see.
Another one is named “American war machine”, 2004. The American empire was driven by the desire for new markets and new resources – a bar code sticks on USA President Bush’s face. The bar code represents the consumers desire for more resources, pasted on American’s president George W. Bush’s face standing behind America’s flag indicates the desire of America on dominating world’s first consumed energy and resource – fossil fuels.
As i have mentioned before, that once a domination or a isolation of resources occured, fairness will fade and power and will to control rise before the horizon…
yeah, the horizon its a bit too far away
The second video is very impressive. It reflects the objective behind the war.