It was fifty years ago today that Gerald Holtom designed the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. It signaled the beginning of the British peace movement and the beginning of it’s reign as the global symbol for Peace. It is arguably the healthiest logo ever created and one of the few A-list logos not of corporate origin.
To commemorate the anniversary Barry Miles has written Peace: Fifty Years of Protest.
It is about “the story of the creation of the original symbol and of how it has been used over the past five decades by peace activists around the world.” It “combines the written history of modern popular protest with a range of fantastic photographs of the diverse ways and places that the symbol has been used. The book will also include a number of hand-drawn cards from both prominent figures —musicians, actors, politicians, artists and businessmen etc.”
Essential Works, the company that produced the book, has created a Happy Birthday Peace website which includes a gallery of contemporary Peace symbols including some celebrity ones by the likes of Kate Hudson, Noam Chomsky and Adam Ant
Thanks to swissmiss for the lead