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It’s a striking street graphic for sure. But at the expense of provocation, its message about the erosion of civil liberties doesn’t quite add up…

The image, created by the Creative Orchestra for citizen-control.tv, forms part of a poster campaign and YouTube film based on the line “It all starts with ‘in the interest of your own safety…'”.

Playing on the notion of the authoritarian voice defending CCTV as being in the interests of individuals, when it’s more in the interests of the state, the idea seems to be that if we don’t wise up to the increased erosion of civil liberties, well, don’t say we didn’t warn you. 

The danger here, however, is that on the way to coming up with a simple, powerful design, the final message gets confused. So we have Hitler = bad and CCTV = bad as well. Both together = very bad i.e. we’re on the way to living in a Nazi state.

Except we’re not. While it’s staggering that the UK does currently have more CCTV cameras on our streets per citizen than any other country, isn’t it rather an insensitive jump to relate this aspect of civil rights concern with Hitler’s Germany?

But then, it’s just an image, right? Or wrong?

Creative Orchestra has also created this accompanying ad:

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Imagery from the campaign can also be viewed and downloaded from citizen-control.tv.

So we can get off this gloomy art news for a bit, so as to not also sour the rest of your morning, a fun story coming out this week about Banksy. As you know, the mysterious prankster artist had named his Sundance-pleasing documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop. Unfortunately, he later discovered that a band in London had also been using that same name. And the trouble with being anonymous and famous at the same time is that when you send emails politely asking the band to change their name so it doesn’t conflict with your upcoming film, they’re likely to think it’s nothing but a prank. So Banksy did something to prove he was who he said: he sent the group a gigantic painting, created to be used as a backdrop for their shows. Upon arrival, the band a) changed their name to Brace Yourself and b) had the painting appraised (perhaps not in that particular order). The estimated going price for the new work: £200,000.

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Image from here.

Une campagne choc aux visuels impactants réalisée pour la compagnie de police de Bangalore et dont la baseline est : “Ne téléphonez pas au volant”. Pensée par l’agence de publicité Mudra Group en Inde, sur une direction artistique de Vinci Raj et des clichés de Mallikarjun.

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