Richard Wentworth, Making Do and Getting By

Richard Wentworth is best known as a sculptor whose work tends to focus on the idea of transformation in alteration and juxtaposition of everyday objects. Looking at his works our perception of our world is changed too, because of the alteration of the connotations of those objects and their inherent symbolism.

The images below are from his photographic series Making Do and Getting By in which he observes the ingenuity of humankind in the appropriation and adaption of everyday objects for new uses, new meanings, and new narratives. A wellington boot becomes a doorstop, a cup becomes a window prop, a brick and piece of board become a ramp, a book becomes a means to steady a chest of drawers (but is rendered impossible to read).

Tomi Ungerer

Tomi Ungerer paradoxically made a living producing political posters, children's books and visual erotica. Again clarity of message, simplicity of palette, visual balance between light and shade, positive and negative.

Ed fella & Geoff Mcfetridge

Collaborative work, it can happen.

Ed Fella

Ed Fella, typographer and Illustrator, uses observed typographic forms to take content and articulate it expressively.

Geoff McFetridge

Jamie Reid

The language travels. Poster for the Sex Pistols by Jamie Reid.

Atelier Populaire

Poster produced by the radical Marxist revolutionaries Atelier Populaire [see more here]during the uprising in 1968. Simplicity/Clarity/Immediacy. At the time the production of these posters had to be quick and immediate, with posters being ripped down almost as soon as they were put up. Ideas and opinion were communicated directly and in a partisan manner.
Probably some of the best examples of the poster as communicator/influencer/manipulator.