Poster 2: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime — UK, 2009
Design: Harry Pearce assisted by Jason Ching, Pentagram UK
The United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime produced a series of posters to highlight the relative merits of drug treatment and rehabilitation around the world. The posters had to be eye-catching, easy to absorb and not reliant on language. The typographic solution creates a simple world map from internationally recognized country abbreviation codes (GB, US, RU etc). Variants were then designed, using color-coding and icons to provide comparative statistics about drug abuse, the incidence of HIV, Methadone and opioid maintenance therapies, and needle and syringe programs.
