Banner designs
Planting a flag
Like logos, banners say something about the organisation they represent.
When we started King's Lynn Stop the War, our biggest problem was that members came from up to half an hour away in any direction, so my idea was to embrace this problem on the banner as an mark of our strength and a measure of how we were unifying people.
The places on the banner are all those from which the original members came, and on demonstrations the banner has frequently brought people to us to say that they have visited one or another place on the banner!
The banner for the King's Lynn Trades Council used the logo image in the frame of a red flag with a simple and direct message. The typeface, Stone sans, has the virtue of being clear and imposing without being mundane.
The banner for H:MC21 was first used on a demonstration in support of the NHS.
Its message is becoming increasingly important, as we see decisions about medical treatment being more and more dictated by the big drug companies, and less and less by what people want and need. The choice we are defending is not a choice between public and private care, but between different types of effective care within a national health service.
