In 2023, the Poster House museum put on an exhibit titled We Tried to Warn You: Environmental Crisis Posters.

  • First, read Travis Diehl’s review of the exhibit in the New York Times.
  • Then, consider the following questions:
  1. How does the writer define the “marketing problem” of the environmental movement?
  2. How do some of the posters highlighted in the exhibit work to address this “marketing problem” and which messaging or methodology do you find most effective?
  3. In what ways does is medium of the poster suited to the messages that environmental activists are working to communicate? How does the messaging from activists differ, or draw from, the types of design decisions that are used by corporate advertisers?
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