"Chemicals," a poster from the Metropolitan Police Service's new 2009 antiterrorism campaign.
Ken Lum, What An Idiot
They’re obviously pretty different images: portrait versus landscape, detailed text versus emotional outpouring. Still, both these images use similar elements of design to deliver a basic message: “do what we tell you.”
The Metropolitan Police Service launched their new campaign this March.
Ken Lum, whose work focuses on questions of race and identity, frequently creates public art. Visit Museum in Progress for an exploration of “There Is No Place Like Home,” Lum’s 2000 piece along the side of the Vienna Kunsthalle.
