As part of the 2007 London Design Festival, 26 Posters set a challenge to twenty-six pairs of writers and designers. To create a six-word poster that somehow comments on or reflects its immediate location. The writer John Ormston and myself created one such poster for our site in the Gorbals, we wanted to reflect the Gorbals' ongoing tansformation and get people talking. The first line comes from the novel by Alexander McArthur, No Mean City.
When these posters are removed from their context, I think it's true to say that they become a bit obscure or lose their depth and meaning. So see if you can see them where they live, they can be found across the UK. Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Manchester with the sites kindly donated by JC Decaux.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/short-stories/
http://www.26.org.uk/books.asp?id=6
Margaret Oscar & Michael Wolff
Waterloo has many famous features – The Eye, the Festival Hall etc. Less well known is the plight of the homeless. That’s still a battle to be won.