Graphic project in favor of peace retired weapons is a graphic project created by japanese Yuji Tokuda and Junya Ishikawa thought for enhance peace facing war by means of a chart seriess where they show the neutralization of different weapons of war through the use of flowers. It is a very attractive work on a visual level because it shows us in a simple way an idea with a lot of heart and feeling.
The best thing about this project is its page websites where can we download for free all the material shown in the websites to a quality quite acceptable to be able if we wish to print our own templates and encourage the idea of this graphic initiative.
Founded by the Japanese Yuji Takuda and Junya Ishikawa (Artistic director and producer of the project) Retired weapons is a joint initiative whose objective is to spread the message of peace through design. They describe their campaign, which has brought together creatives from all over the world, as “a pleasant message, but at the same time powerful and very positive ». Visually, the campaign combines the weapons symbols with images of flowers, the notion of surrendering or withdrawing weapons from circulation in defense of the peaceful resistance.
The campaign reflects the performances of the so-called hippies of the XNUMXs, anti-war activists vietnam who used the flower symbolism to promote their ideology about non-violence (giving flowers to the policemen and placing them in the barrel of the military's rifles).
The signs and symbols War and peace share in a shocking way what is manufactured by man versus what is natural. Rifles, grenades, tanks, and planes represent warwhile hearts, flowers, and doves are peace emblems. The poppy was chosen in remembrance of the fallen by as many as it flourished on the battlefields of Flanders during World War I, offering its red color as appropriate symbolism to represent the bleeding from the trenches.
In the page websites of the project we can find all the material to download for free. The websites It is quite interesting and entertaining because it has animations and music, thus managing to represent a quite world upbeat and positive.