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White sans-serif text on a plain black background reads “BRING THE WAR HOME”.

Experimental Jetset, Build and others' war posters curated by Pentagram's Alex Brown

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Date
10 February 2016

Pentagram designer Alex Brown has curated a non-profit exhibition of prints exploring the theme of dissident movements, with design studios Experimental Jetset, Build, Neubau, Catalogue and many more showing work.

A personal project for Alex, Bring the war home will feature 25 unique posters to accompany individual overviews of dissident groups featured in a limited-edition book featuring essays by Noam Chomsky and Simon Critchley.

Having designed the book, Alex has also created all promotional materials for the project including exhibition graphics, a poster and a Bring the war home bag. His monochromatic scheme and minimalist layouts highlight the broad spectrum of creative philosophies covered in the book and exhibition by allowing the diverse range of print designs to stand alone, uncompromised by the project’s clean branding.

All proceeds from the book and show are being donated to Shelter.
Bring the war home will be on show at KK Outlet, London N1, 11-29 February 2016

A white book cover divided horizontally, with a grey lower half. The top section reads “BRING THE WAR HOME”, followed by “THE IMPACT AND VISUAL CULTURE OF DISSIDENT MOVEMENTS” and the names “CHOMSKY & CRITCHLEY”.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

An open book shows a black and white layout. The left page features a grid of geometric patterns and the text “SERVE THE PEOPLE” above Chinese characters. The right page is mostly white, framed by a border of text that reads “IT’S THE SAME THING DAY AFTER DAY.”
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

A grid of 25 white logos and symbols on a black background. The collection includes various political and activist emblems, such as a raised fist and the text “The Angry Brigade”.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

A typographic poster with a dark grey camouflage background. The words “BRING THE WARM HOME” are repeated vertically in a bold, white sans-serif font.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

A plain white tote bag set against a black background. Bold black text in the centre reads “BRING THE WAR HOME”.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

An abstract collage of swirling pink, coral and light blue marbled patterns. Bold, fragmented typographic elements and halftone dots are layered throughout the composition.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

A typographic poster featuring bold white text set against overlapping red and blue rectangular blocks. The words include “STAMM”, “LANDS”, “HUT”, “GSG9” and “DISCHU”, with other letters layered and partially obscured.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

A bold typographic poster featuring fragmented, oversized letters in blue, burgundy, pink and peach. In the top right corner, text reads “LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ” above the word “SPONTI”.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

A bold typographic poster in white and black repeats the phrase “is a pig” four times. Small text at the bottom attributes the quote to the Black Panther–Black Community News Service from 15 August 1970.
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Alex Brown: Bring the war home

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Milly Burroughs

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Milly Burroughs (@millyburroughs2.0) is a Berlin-based writer and editor specialising in art, design and architecture. Her work can be read in magazines such as AnOther, Dazed, TON, Lux, Elephant, Hypebeast and many more, as well as contributing to books on architecture and design from publishers Gestalten and DK. She is It’s Nice That’s Berlin correspondent.

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