New Work: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Harry Pearce and Jason Ching have designed a series of posters for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime that highlight the relative merits of drug treatment and rehabilitation around the world. The posters are a training tool specifically aimed at the Russian police, whose country has a particularly poor track record in drug treatment. The posters had to be eye-catching, easy to absorb and not reliant on language. The typographic solution built a simple world map from internationally recognised country abbreviation codes (GB, US, RU, etc). Eight variants were then designed, using colour coding and icons to provide comparative statistics around drug abuse, the incidence of HIV, Methadone and opioid maintenance therapies, and needle and syringe programmes.

Harry previously designed a series of mugs for the initiative.

A look at the posters after the jump.

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Harry Pearce Designs Posters to Train the Russian Police

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From Russia With Mugs

Harry Pearce, with assistant Muriel Moukawem, has designed seven coffee mugs for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s mission in the Russian Federation. Each of the mugs, intended to be distributed amongst Russia’s law enforcement agencies, is decorated with a short rhyme promoting the UNODC’s drug counselling program and encouraging officers to refer drug addicts in their custody for treatment.