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Design Category
Illustration, 1995
Design firm
Viva Dolan Communications and Design (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Collection
(1996) Communication Graphics: 17
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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.