Matthias Felleisen wrote on 09/20/2015 05:46 PM:
Can we please stay away from politics and leaning on politics? I am sure everyone has different connotations with these kinds of symbols.
I have a similar aversion to the Grateful Dead iconography: connotations of substance abuse, intellectual impairment, countercultural friction, societal detachment... :)
More seriously, I do like the PLT/Racket logos, and I like this poster from Finland.
Regarding the poster, I previously assumed that the Shepard Fairey Obama poster stylization has long since been genericized in most people's minds. However, non-US people, *when they want to appeal to broad US audiences*, should be aware that large percentages of people in the US react very negatively to references to certain politicians and political issues. So, a poster that is universally great for promotion within Finland can be controversial and problematic if used for promotion within the US. (I only mention this because I'm not sure that this particular kind of US sensitivity is familiar to all cultures; I don't mean to be pedantic.)
On the US side, regarding someone featuring a collection that could be called "PLT/Racket in art", rather than engaging in targeted promotion, I think this is a situation in which diversity is good. A museum shouldn't tiptoe like a marketer does.
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