Posters, Pins & Postage for a Cause
Design +2
Age Levels Middle School (13 to 15 years old), High School (16 to 18 years old)
Analyze selected images and discuss:
- What is the cause or social issue?
- How has the artist/designer combined text and image to communicate a message?
- What visual qualities make an image effective or not?
"Freedom to Breathe" Environmental Poster
National Museum of American History
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" Button
National Museum of American History
"Let It Be," Environmental Statement
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
"Save the Whales" Greenpeace Sticker
National Museum of American History
"Safe Energy" Button
National Museum of American History
3c King Salmon single
National Postal Museum
Leonard Crow Dog
National Portrait Gallery
33c Adoption single
National Postal Museum
Environmental Button
National Museum of American History
13c Conservation single
National Postal Museum
4c Water Conservation single
National Postal Museum
10c Energy Conservation single
National Postal Museum
Give Peace a Dance
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
5c Food For Peace single
National Postal Museum
8c Peace Corps single
National Postal Museum
4c Communications for Peace - Echo I single
National Postal Museum
22c Help End Hunger single
National Postal Museum
AIDS Crisis
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
poster
National Museum of American History
Join The Challenge // Recycle More!
National Museum of American History
3c Polio single
National Postal Museum
button, (No) Polio
National Museum of American History
WPU Pin
National Museum of American History
Pinback button protesting apartheid
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Digital print of a Chicago housing mural by John Pitman Weber
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Button, March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom
National Museum of American History