by Natalia Ramirez and Devina Sarawgi

We went to Poster House last Thursday for a tour of their latest exhibition “Masked Vigilantes On Silent Motorbikes”. It was an enlightening experience seeing different artists and designers shape popular culture with unique methodologies of their own. Posters as mundane objects are elevated in this exhibition as ways to communicate, advocate, and question. I appreciate the thought-provoking discussions and the after-tour workshop that engaged our designer-senses in educational and innovative ways.

Maya Varadaraj was an incredible Poster House tour guide — she took us around the current exhibition, which is all about artistic interventions on found and reappropriated posters. She suggested new ways of looking at design, encouraging us to consider how meaning is transfigured through interventions that add to, subtract from, or thread material together to ultimately alter the original message. We finished our tour with an activity in which we created our own poster intervention as a group and reflected on our new knowledge. Thank you to Poster House and Maya, our tour lead, for this unforgettable experience!