A Bunch of Crock

A lit­tle warn­ing: this is not the typ­i­cal dwl post. It’s polit­i­cally charged, and may be offen­sive to some of you. But I have to say, when I received this sub­mis­sion, I was really impressed by the creator’s com­mit­ment to tak­ing a stand in such a heated polit­i­cal cli­mate. Safwat Saleem, an Arizona-based, Pakistani-born designer and film­maker, devel­oped A Bunch of Crock—an exhi­bi­tion and poster series funded through Kickstarter — as a reac­tion to the cur­rent polit­i­cal land­scape, as well as his experieences liv­ing in the U.S. post-9/11.

If you take a look at the posters on his site, you can see spe­cific quotes and sources that each are in response to. And before react­ing to their mes­sages, I encour­age you to watch this Kickstarter video and lis­ten to his story. It cer­tainly left an impres­sion on me.

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This entry was written by Courtney, posted on March 23, 2011 at 10:00 am, filed under Design. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

11 Comments

  1. freshfishcreative
    Posted March 23, 2011 at 10:52 am | Permalink

    one of my favorite posts ever.

  2. Jaimee
    Posted March 23, 2011 at 11:04 am | Permalink

    Wow, talk about hav­ing a lot of courage for speak­ing up. I applaud him for doing so. I made a point of shar­ing with friends.

  3. Danielle
    Posted March 23, 2011 at 11:17 am | Permalink

    Thanks for shar­ing, this is amazing!

  4. Jakobi
    Posted March 23, 2011 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

    Love the mes­sage. The art­work is pretty stan­dard though. Meh.

  5. NIkki
    Posted March 23, 2011 at 7:46 pm | Permalink

    Wonderful. Rather than get­ting angry he gets beau­ti­ful. Providing a gen­tle pro­voka­tion of thought in the viewer.

  6. Jeremy
    Posted March 23, 2011 at 8:41 pm | Permalink

    Amazing and hum­bling, thanks for post­ing this project.

  7. JJ
    Posted March 24, 2011 at 3:54 pm | Permalink

    I just fin­ished read­ing “Victore or, Who Died and Made You Boss?” and I’m really glad to see some pas­sion and fear­less­ness out there (and being shared on this blog).

  8. DDoright
    Posted March 27, 2011 at 3:03 pm | Permalink

    Too true to ignore. Art evokes Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, and early TV adver­tis­ing, and sort of screams “Take us back to the Eisenhower years when life was a lot sim­pler and less threat­en­ing for white guys (like me).”

  9. zethu sidumo
    Posted April 19, 2011 at 5:16 am | Permalink

    i love the work and the message!!!

  10. Kelli N Anderson
    Posted May 22, 2011 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

    Nearly fell off the couch laugh­ing when I saw these. Thanks for sharing!

  11. Charles Dlamini
    Posted July 11, 2011 at 7:41 am | Permalink

    What a work of art it got me going, and funny too.

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