Good 50×70 announces its 210 shortlisted posters for 2009

There’s no one better at telling people a message and getting them to act on it than the communications industry. There’s nothing more instant form of communicating a message than a poster.

Good 50×70, an independent, non-profit initiative was created with the following aims:

- to promote the value of social communication in the creative community,
- to provide charities with a (free) database of communication tools,
- to inspire the public via graphic design.

Their focus is an annual contest to design posters confronting seven of the critical issues affecting today’s world. They chose posters as the media for the contest as they’re the most direct way to convey a message and can be easily translated to other media.

Here are some of my favorite shortlisted posters under all the 7 categories.Women Right Violation

'THEY ARE ALL READY CARRYING TOO MUCH'

Camila Jaimes

Bolivia

Women Right Violation
'Right to health'

Eva Chudomelova

Czech Republic

War on Terror

'Hope!'

Selcuk Ozis

United Kingdom

War on Terror
'Close Guantanamo Bay'

Anita Wasik

Poland

Nuclear Emergency
'THE SCREAM'

Malgorzata Bedowska

Poland

Nuclear Emergency
'Nuclear Evolution'

Handoko Tjung

Indonesia

HIV/AIDS
'Fight aids not people with aids'

Sara Gama

Portugal

HIV/AIDS
'Together'

Rémi Fouquet

France

Healthcare Deprivation
'you can't boil water and call it soup'

Daniele Politini

Italy

Healthcare Deprivation
'WE CAN HEAL US'

Khodabandeh Bizhan

United States

Climate Change
'Extinction'

Marco Valentini

Italy

Climate Change
'Global warming makes them disappear'

Ju-hwan Lee
Seung-hoon Nam

Korea (South)

Child Labor
'One in Six'

Ana Cristina Abreu Jesus

Portugal

Child Labor
'Labor Mobile'

Jude Landry

United States