2007

Title: No More Hiroshima!
Design: Shin Matsunaga

It was a fine day in Hiroshima at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945. There was a flash of light. A right to life is given to anyone. The cruelest death suddenly visits a remote peaceful place from a battlefield. Many innocent children have died with nobody’s presence. Again, strong sorrow and anger wells up in my heart. We can’t forgive the reckless action of an A-bomb dropping down on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “Design work always has to be positive, pure, righteous and beautiful.” This has been my motto in my whole life up until now. But in making the poster of “Hiroshima Appeals 2007” I decided to appeal with the straight emotion of sorrow and anger. This emotion includes the anger of my powerlessness because I could not do anything in particular for this cause. This black circle is the symbol to express sorrow and anger of people who died silently. This circle also stands for the largest error of human beings, the burned Japanese flag and the earth in despair. No more Hiroshima! No more Nagasaki! Though 60 years have passed since then, why is war not over?