The Rules of War Posters by Mirna Noaman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Silver A' Design Award in Graphics, Illustration and Visual Communication Design Competition Category.
SilverGraphic· 2020
The Rules of War Posters
by Mirna Noaman
Client: International Committee of the Red Cross
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Graphic Category
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About The Rules of War Posters
The Rules of War is a poster series about international humanitarian law and the rules of restraint in armed conflict. The series uses mostly negative space, with no colors, shapes or figures that could point to any side of a conflict. Four themes present the shared teachings of international humanitarian law and the Quran. The posters were created to bring these rules closer to Arabic speaking and Muslim audiences during Ramadan. Each poster measures 1000 by 700 millimeters and is made for both printed and digital use.
The Recognition
About the Silver A' Design Award
The Rules of War Posters is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. The Rules of War Posters is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. The Rules of War Posters is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
Where to Get It
Visual Storytelling for Humanitarian Causes
We create powerful visual narratives that bridge cultures and communicate humanitarian values. Our award-winning work connects International Humanitarian Law with diverse communities through culturally relevant design. We specialize in visual communication that promotes peace, protects civilians, and builds understanding across conflict-affected regions.
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The thought-provoking poster design series utilizes mostly negative space to illustrative conceptual ideas about the rules of restraint in conflict. The brief entailed to include no colors, shapes, or figures that could point fingers at any sides of warring conflict, and so the use of a neutral but powerful image was the answer.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 1000 mm x 700 mm x 200 gm
- Tags
- Peace, War, Humanitarian, Quraan, Islam, Poster Design, Poster, Conflict
- Production Technology
- iPad Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Quraan, Red Cross Library
- Design Challenge
- The biggest obstacle creating visuals for a neutral and impartial organization whose communication work directly affects its ability to have the unique access it has to
- Research
- To kickstart, an observation of the perception of the Red Cross in the Arab region amongst Muslim countries was taken note of, which was that it was a Christian organization that is secular even in providing aid and people were skeptical to donate money to it. Research was conducted on the similarities between International Humanitarian Law, which is essentially the mandate of Red Cross, and Quraan, which is in some sense the "mandate" of the aforementioned audience. The similarities were very clear and directly instructed, and therefore, four themes were identified to be visualized.
- Inspiration
- Created for the worst of times, International Humanitarian Law preserves the core of our common humanity. However, with the amount of shocking violations to it nowadays, its capacity to provide real protections for the victims of today's complex armed conflicts has been in question by many. To bring international humanitarian law closer to Arab speaking audiences and Muslim communities during Ramadan, this set of posters was created to stir conversation and communicate the very similar teachings of International Humanitarian Law and Islam.
- Project Duration
- This project was created during the month of May 2019 in Cairo, Egypt.
- Operation Flow
- These posters are designed to live both in printed and digital form. On social media platforms belonging to Red Cross, the posters garnered great relevance to the audience, and was shared widely. With people supporting the messages of peace and being in favor of promoting humanitarian values.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to the International Committee of the Red Cross, 2019.
- Team Members
- Mirna Noaman
Salma Nasrallah
Safaa Abdelbaky
Ahmad Al Dawoody
Martin Unternaehrer - Image Credits
- Illustrator / Creative Director: Mirna Noaman
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