The Rules of War Série de Cartazes by Mirna Noaman

The Rules of War Série de Cartazes by Mirna Noaman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Prata in Design Gráfico, Ilustração e Comunicação Visual Competition Category.

PrataGráfico· 2020

The Rules of War Série de Cartazes

by Mirna Noaman

Client: International Committee of the Red Cross

A' Design Award de Prata Winner in Gráfico Category

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The Design

About The Rules of War Série de Cartazes

As Regras da Guerra é uma série de cartazes sobre o direito internacional humanitário e as regras de contenção em conflitos armados. A série utiliza sobretudo o espaço negativo, sem cores, formas ou figuras que possam remeter a qualquer um dos lados de um conflito. Quatro temas apresentam os ensinamentos comuns ao direito internacional humanitário e ao Alcorão. Os cartazes foram criados para aproximar essas regras do público árabe e muçulmano durante o Ramadã. Cada cartaz mede 1000 por 700 milímetros e foi concebido tanto para uso impresso quanto digital.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Prata

The Rules of War Série de Cartazes conquistou o A' Design Award de Prata, um reconhecimento extraordinariamente prestigiado atribuído a designs de topo de gama, deslumbrantes e impressionantes. Os vencedores da Prata são obras tremendamente brilhantes e extremamente criativas que ilustram a perícia, o talento e a acuidade excecionais dos seus designers. Espera-se que The Rules of War Série de Cartazes seja uma obra maravilhosa e de referência, notavelmente profissional e profundamente inovadora. Este design vencedor do A' Design Award de Prata é uma invenção muito notável e admirada, que beneficia e faz avançar as fronteiras da arte, da ciência, do design e da tecnologia. The Rules of War Série de Cartazes é uma criação imensamente invejada que desperta desejos, traz sentimentos positivos e faz nascer espanto e deslumbramento.

Behind the Design

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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