Anu Merenlahti

Graphic Design
1971, Finland

Know Your Rights: Designers as Activist

Produced for Amnesty International, the exhibition Know Your Rights demonstrates how renowned designers perceive the 60-year-old UDHR.
How does a designer succeed as an activist? How does a poster work as a tool for activism? In my project, I studied poster design and social activism in relation to each other.

Know Your Rights was part of the Helsinki Design Week program in the fall of 2008. The posters have been on display in several exhibitions and public demonstrations in Finland, Germany and Norway. The exhibition was accepted at the Lahti Poster Biennial 2009.

Julistesuunnittelijat: Ahonen & Lamberg; BOTH; Erik Bruun; Collabsgraphics; dog design; Joakim Eskildsen ja Cia Rinne; Eremenko & Metsola; Tizzi ja Allan Fib; Sirpa Fourastie, Erika Kallasmaa, Maippi Ketola ja Pauli Ojala; Matti Hagelberg ja Katja Tukiainen; Hahmo; Maarit Hohteri; Sasha Huber ja Petri Saarikko; Hilppa Hyrkäs; Aimo Katajamäki; Kokoro & moi; Jyri Konttinen; Katariina Koskinen; Katja Kuittinen; Minna Lavola, Mia Olsson ja Tommi Vallisto; Anu Merenlahti; Marja-Leena Muukka ja Raimo E.Tikkanen; Teemu Mäki; Konsta Ojala ; Kari Piippo; Maiju Salmenkivi ja Henna Aaltonen; Tiitu Takalo; Jarno Tiainen; Ville Tietäväinen; Sakke Yrjölä.

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VISUAL CULTURE

Ahlava, Joonas
Heinilehto, Teemu
Kaila, Tuukka
Koivisto, Kaisu
Lahti, Hanna
Lehtovirta, Tommi
Mandharachitara, Napin
Matikainen, Elisa
Meilahti, Sanna-Reeta
Merenlahti, Anu
Miljak, Cvijeta
Nykänen, Reetta
Pakaslahti, Hella
Ryynänen, Ulla
Valonen, Liisa
Vasko, Ea