Symbolizing Peace

Do We Need a New Peace Logo? A Museum in Frankfurt Thinks So

Coinciding with its upcoming group exhibition “PEACE,” which opens on July 1, the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt has launched an open call for a new peace logo.

“This summer, with our PEACE exhibition, the Schirn sets out to explore how peace actually works, a question that is as compelling as ever today,” said Philipp Demandt, director of the museum.

“Quite apart from this, we feel it is high time for a new peace logo. A logo for today that reflects our current notion of peace,” he added.

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Could the winning design really replace the iconic peace sign?

Designed in the 1950s, the popular symbol originated from the British campaign for nuclear disarmament, and was quickly adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and around the world.

The current forked peace symbol was designed by the British artist and designer Gerald Holtom in 1958. Based on the letters N and D of the flag semaphore (the signal alphabet) the sign was intended for the campaign against nuclear weapons – N. D. stood for “nuclear disarmament “.

Starting the peace sign “revolution” on a smaller scale, the winning entry–which will be determined by an independent jury of five–will be used in media advertising for the exhibition at Schirn, and the lucky designer will receive a €1,000 cash prize.

The show, curated by Matthias Ulrich, takes a humanist perspective on peace, focusing on the interaction and communication around human co-existence through language, culture, and nature.

○ Schirn Kunsthalle: The Peace Project July 1 – Sept. 24, 2017

2 Comments

Arthur Gilroy on April 17, 2017 at 8:34 am

When has the world ever been “peaceful,” Oui?

“Red in tooth and claw” might be a more accurate sign. At least people would be encouraged to stop dreaming.

A peace sign is about as useful as stop signs in the NYC area.

That museum in Franfurt?

Just anther place where people make money on half-hatched schemes.

Peace.

It’s what’s for dinner.

Bet on it.

ASG

Oui on April 17, 2017 at 12:14 pm

Atomic bomb predicted in 1917 …

Death of FDR

Atomic bombs explode over Japanese people (Aug. 1945)

Western powers relinquish former colonies, a painful proces with millions dying over two decades.

Cold War sets in with a destroyed Soviet Union, two China’s and the war with communism in Korea

US/UK subversion to get rid of Mossadeq in favor of a monarch in Persia – think BP

Suez crisis in 1956

Cuban missile crisis 1962 evolved into assassination of a president

Johnson sends US troops into IndoChina to keep a royal family on the throne

June 1967 – the Six Day War between Israel and Arab nations

Deadly violence in the US and two political assassinations in 1968

Johnson failed at the 1968 peace conference in Paris with representatives of North Vietnam (think Henry Kissinger)

Era of Nixon and Kissinger 1969-1973

Egypt’s war of attrition with Israel – 1973

US enforces its will in the America’s through dictators to fight calls for social justice of the people

Brief moment of truce between Egypt and Israel – Camp David accords

President Sadat assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood – Ayman al-Zawahiri

Israel-Lebanon wars leading to civil unrest, PLO loses power and Hezbollah created 1978-82

Syria asked by the UN to play a peacekeeping role in Lebanon to unite a divided nation

Alliance between Hezbollah – Syria – Iran grows stronger in opposition to a nuclear Israel

US permits Pakistan to develop the Islamic nuclear bomb to counter the alliance India/Soviet Union

US alliance with Saudi Arabia and foreign fighters [mujahideen, OBL and Pakistan’s ISI] to defeat the Soviet forces in Afghanistan – 1980

Fall of communism during the Reagan administration (VP George H. Bush) after perestroika and glasnost by Gorbachev

Rise of Al Qaeda terror acts during the 1990s in East Africa, Chechnya and later in alliance with the Taliban in AfPak region

Agression by NATO, a makeover from a defensive pact to an offensive military arm of US Generals and the Pentagon

Arthur Gilroy on April 17, 2017 at 8:34 am

When has the world ever been “peaceful,” Oui?

“Red in tooth and claw” might be a more accurate sign. At least people would be encouraged to stop dreaming.

A peace sign is about as useful as stop signs in the NYC area.

That museum in Franfurt?

Just anther place where people make money on half-hatched schemes.

Peace.

It’s what’s for dinner.

Bet on it.

ASG
- Oui on April 17, 2017 at 12:14 pm
  
  Atomic bomb predicted in 1917 …
  
  Death of FDR
  
  Atomic bombs explode over Japanese people (Aug. 1945)
  
  Western powers relinquish former colonies, a painful proces with millions dying over two decades.
  
  Cold War sets in with a destroyed Soviet Union, two China’s and the war with communism in Korea
  
  US/UK subversion to get rid of Mossadeq in favor of a monarch in Persia – think BP
  
  Suez crisis in 1956
  
  Cuban missile crisis 1962 evolved into assassination of a president
  
  Johnson sends US troops into IndoChina to keep a royal family on the throne
  
  June 1967 – the Six Day War between Israel and Arab nations
  
  Deadly violence in the US and two political assassinations in 1968
  
  Johnson failed at the 1968 peace conference in Paris with representatives of North Vietnam (think Henry Kissinger)
  
  Era of Nixon and Kissinger 1969-1973
  
  Egypt’s war of attrition with Israel – 1973
  
  US enforces its will in the America’s through dictators to fight calls for social justice of the people
  
  Brief moment of truce between Egypt and Israel – Camp David accords
  
  President Sadat assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood – Ayman al-Zawahiri
  
  Israel-Lebanon wars leading to civil unrest, PLO loses power and Hezbollah created 1978-82
  
  Syria asked by the UN to play a peacekeeping role in Lebanon to unite a divided nation
  
  Alliance between Hezbollah – Syria – Iran grows stronger in opposition to a nuclear Israel
  
  US permits Pakistan to develop the Islamic nuclear bomb to counter the alliance India/Soviet Union
  
  US alliance with Saudi Arabia and foreign fighters [mujahideen, OBL and Pakistan’s ISI] to defeat the Soviet forces in Afghanistan – 1980
  
  Fall of communism during the Reagan administration (VP George H. Bush) after perestroika and glasnost by Gorbachev
  
  Rise of Al Qaeda terror acts during the 1990s in East Africa, Chechnya and later in alliance with the Taliban in AfPak region
  
  Agression by NATO, a makeover from a defensive pact to an offensive military arm of US Generals and the Pentagon

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