Sir, – The campaign poster is an important form of visual communication. They are there to familiarise the candidates with the electorate.
But the beautifully designed and creatively enhanced photographs I’ve seen tend to emphasise image at the expense of content. The posters come across as aggressive since they are posted en masse on lamp-posts in competition with others. Also, the political messages attached to the faces are invariably trite, humourless and condescending.
Where are the witty slogans of yesteryear, such as that classic poster of Oliver J Flanagan, in Laois-Offaly, saying “Here Comes Oliver” on the front and “There Goes Oliver” on the back? – Yours, etc,
JOHN O’BYRNE,
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