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Exhibition: Designed to promote protest
A new exhibition in Glasgow shows how graphic art is taking a distinctly radical turn in response to political events, says its curator NEIL MCGUIRE

It's Not Very Nice That: Graphic Design And Politics is a slice through contemporary, politically engaged graphic design which highlights the way designers are currently exploring, documenting and responding to recent political events.

While it would be easy to connect much of what they're producing with recent political upheavals from Occupy Wall Street to Tahrir Square, a main focus of the exhibition is to look at the different ways in which graphic design engages with these situations and it does so through the social, economic, cultural and technological contexts within which designers themselves are working.

The exhibition came about in response to the graphic designers of the internet-based Deterritorial Support Group, named in "homage" to the London Metropolitan riot police unit the Territorial Support Group.

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