Sunday, 13 May 2012

Vietnamese propaganda posters

One day we will move to Vietnam for a year or so (seriously! it's a plan!) and I will learn Vietnamese and know what these posters and billboards. Time will tell whether at that stage I regret putting them on the blog.

For now I just appreciate the colour they add to the streetscapes, and the quaint social/socialist-realism of them.

Featured at many an intersection. I guess it's about motocycle safety- no minor issue in a country where whole families are regularly seen aboard a single scooter.


In southern Vietnam during the revolution, women made up 40% of the guerrilla movement.


"Ever vigilant"... One of the many awesome posters on display at the Women's Museum in Hanoi - the most informative and well-presented museum we visited.


A woman's work is never done...

Yeah, no idea about these ones...






These two were outside a school in Hoi An,welcoming the comrade worker-soldier-scientists of the future:





In Vietnam, even the emergency fire instructions are cute and colourful!


And that is why I have to move there. Among other reasons, such as:







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