PEN Poster: “A Loss for Words”

PEN Poster: “A Loss for Words”

Viva Dolan Communications and Design, Toronto, Ontario, 1995

Description

The Canadian branch of PEN, an international writers’ organization that campaigns for freedom of expression, requested a fundraising poster depicting the plight of writers who had been silenced for publishing their views. Blending illustration and photo-collage, “A Loss for Words” shows someone gagged with a spool of narrative piled up, unread, inside his head. The main illustration was drawn directly onto pages from a suppressed Solzhenitsyn novel.

Collections: Communication Graphics: 17 (1996)
Repository: Denver Art Museum
Discipline: Illustration
Format: Illustration, Posters, Promotion

Credits

Design firm
Viva Dolan Communications and Design
Art director
Frank Viva
Graphic designer
Frank Viva
Illustrator
Frank Viva
Photographer
Hill Peppard
Writer
Doug Dolan
Printer
Annan & Sons Lithographers
Paper
Conqueror Bright White Wove Text
Client
PEN Canada
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