During the break between semester 2 and 3, in october, i went to singapore.
An informal trip to visit my friend and visit the city/country.
It was weird to visit such a tidy country comparing to the swarming Ho Chi Minh city and i was quite destabilize by all these rules. I mean, I love this vietnamese shamble.
Anyway, i saw numerous and divers things in Singapore. Then, visiting my friend's university i came across a peculiar poster.
My singaporean mates asked me why i was so offended by this poster. And, I answered that we do not see this kind of propaganda since 1945 after the german occupation and the Vichy government.
However, adding "Suspicious strangers? report them." the poster takes another dimension, not so proudly.
The first ideas which crossed in my mind is: encouragement to inform on others, denunciation. Even more, mixing the words suspicious and strangers obviously mean that Singaporean have to not trust strangers.
Finally, this poster shows how a simple design coming from simple ideas can have considerable power.
Though please guys tell me if my interpretation is shared and pertinent or if the reason i was shocked is simply due to the distressing French collaborationist past (at least the one my grand parents and my history teacher told me).
1 comments:
I have to say, this iconography is a little confusing to me. It looks like... there's a woman in the bathroom, and a guy trying to get in because he has a bad stomach..."Help.. I need the bathroom!"
;-P
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