Graphic Design / 05

Posters.

Ideas compressed into a single visual field, from cultural work to public messages.

ahmad ghabel Poster

Ahmad Ghabel

Human-rights poster featuring a black silhouette of an outstretched hand holding a blue butterfly, set against layered text from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The composition references Article 1 and uses the butterfly as a symbol of freedom, dignity and equality.

Article 1, Human Rights Poster

Minimal environmental poster showing a cyclist wearing an oxygen tank and breathing mask, rendered as a bold black pictogram against a grey, clouded background. Persian text below translates as “Ride and Breathe.”

Breathe and Ride

2009

Minimal black poster featuring a dark artist’s palette illuminated along its edge, with a glowing green computer command-line symbol replacing traditional paint colours. The composition presents digital technology as a new creative palette.

Digital Painting, A New Palette

Human-rights poster showing black silhouettes of birds escaping from strands of barbed wire and flying into an open blue and yellow sky, using the transition from confinement to flight as a metaphor for freedom. The Amnesty International mark appears at the bottom.

Freedom

Minimal environmental poster combining the graphic symbols of the sun and an electrical socket into a single yellow-and-black icon on a white background. The message “Plug Into the Sun” promotes solar energy through a simple visual metaphor.

Plug Into the Sun

Minimal conceptual poster featuring a single metallic key against a black background, with a keyhole embedded within the head of the key itself. The accompanying question “Who Holds the Key?” creates a visual paradox around access, control and authority.

Who Holds the Key?

2010

Conceptual environmental poster showing the rear of a dark car with its exhaust pipe transformed into the barrel of a handgun, creating a visual metaphor for the lethal effects of vehicle-related air pollution.

Air polution Kills

2009

Environmental poster depicting the Earth set into a diamond ring in place of its central gemstone. The jewellery metaphor presents the planet as something precious and irreplaceable, accompanied by the message “Price It If You Can.”

Price It If You Can, Environmental Poster

2008

Experimental poster featuring a veiled human figure emerging from a richly textured amber and black composition, surrounded by dense, flowing Persian calligraphic forms. Figurative imagery, typography and layered textures merge into an expressive exploration of concealment, identity and freedom.

Experimental

Environmental poster featuring a chainsaw against a vivid red background, with a living forest appearing inside the cutting blade. Green paint-like splashes reinforce the visual metaphor of deforestation and the irreversible destruction of natural environments.

The Last Cut, Environmental Poster

2008

Environmental awareness poster depicting the Statue of Liberty as a red silhouette against a black background, holding a melting snowflake in place of the torch to symbolise global warming and climate change.

Think Again

2010