rehabdesign were recently commissioned to create an identity for NHS Lewisham’s new dental campaign. Once created it was rolled out across billboards, phone boxes, bus shelters, posters and leaflets.
Persuading people to practise safe sex, eat healthily, and get children to brush their teeth is not easy - but over the years thousands of public health campaigns across the world have tried to do just that, and much more.
Dr Laragh Gollogly from the World Health Organization has brought together some of the most striking posters from past decades in a book. Here, she explains the ways governments and doctors have tried - from fear to humour - to get their messages across.
An interesting little article on film poster typography can be read here.
A doughnut-brandishing Homer Simpson has been painted next to the giant on the hill above Cerne Abbas, Dorset, to promote the new Simpsons film.