‘Graphic Intervention’: Three Decades of Posters Against AIDS
This spring marks three decades since the first cases of AIDS appeared and were announced by the CDC in June 1981. Since then, progress has been made in the treatment of the disease, which has infected more than 60 million people around the world. Posters have been a valuable tool in the fight, used to raise awareness, help prevention, and combat prejudice. Graphic Intervention is an exhibition of over 150 posters from throughout the epidemic that opens today at the Art Directors Club in New York. The selection includes a pair designed by Pentagram’s Harry Pearce and Jason Ching for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, used to train Russian police about the prevalence of HIV among injecting drug users in Europe and countries around the world.
The posters featured in Graphic Intervention can be seen in an online gallery here; the show remains on view at the ADC through July 29.