Vintage creates new poster display for graphic edition of Snyder's 'On Tyranny'

Vintage has created a poster display for the new graphic edition of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny (Bodley Head) in London’s Newington Green area.

In 2017 the publisher, working with creative agency Jack Arts, printed the entire contents of On Tyranny in specially designed and illustrated posters across public billboards in London. The new campaign features artwork from Nora Krug who illustrated the graphic edition. The publisher said the display erected in Newington Green on 28th October (to coincide with publication day) will turn "this pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination and call for action". 

On Tyranny began as a Facebook post following the election of Donald Trump as President of the US. It quickly evolved into a book, which saw Snyder become one of the US' foremost political commentators.

Snyder said: “Nora Krug’s work is astounding on the page and astonishing as a broadside. On Tyranny is about how our actions in public matter more than we think. Nothing could be more appropriate than getting its lessons to public places. Of the 20 lessons of On Tyranny, one that people return to again and again is: 'Take responsibility for the face of the world.’ The poster campaigns that follow this lesson are a delight. The poster is right. It does matter that we read, and what we read. If these posters help our bookshops then we have achieved our task."

Krug added: “Enlarging pages from On Tyranny, and posting them on public walls make them appear like contemporary versions of traditional broadsides: illustrated poems that would talk about important events and issues of the time."