NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign Brochure
Date
Credits
- NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign
- Unknown 121 Designer
- Unknown 121 Illustrator
Format
- Poster 2561
- Lettering 20
- Illustration 408
- Brochure 80
Techniques
- printing 938
Locations Made
- United States 1015
- New York 426
This poster/brochure from the New York Public Interest Research Group’s (NYPIRG) Straphangers Campaign around the 1980s illustrates their fight for safer public transit, specifically targeted to the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). At this time, some of the primary concerns of the campaign were “air conditioning, fare prices, crime, safety, and subway announcements” (New York Public Library). The NYPIRG pushed their campaign on many fronts, using various forms of media, publications, physical/printed ephemera, and even protests (NYPL).
This poster uses a cartoon/comic style to illustrate some of the deplorable problems with the safety of the subway system, specifically calling out the MTA and calling for safer public transit. The poster's main tagline ends with a red, almost blood-like dripping “Fear”, the only non-black or white color in the poster, which jumps out as the most eye-catching element to draw viewers in.
Information on the designer of this object or where it was published was unable to be located.
