This poster announces a 2005 exhibition at the School of Visual Arts celebrating the publication of the book The Design of Dissent: Socially and Politically Driven Graphics, by Milton Glaser and the Bosnian-born illustrator and graphic designer Mirko Illić. The bold black-and-red typographic composition is closely based on that of the book’s cover, also designed by Glaser, and evokes Russian Constructivist posters; the thick black lines obscuring part of the title further suggest the official censorship of the authoritarian regimes. The graphic design in both book and exhibition reflects a critical response to such constraints and was represented in the exhibition, according to the SVA’s press release, by objects as varied as “posters, books, buttons, magazines and other ephemera from the 1960s to the present, from countries such as Israel, Palestine, the former Yugoslavia, Russia, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Iran, Turkey, Bosnia, Serbia, Spain, Poland, Malaysia, Germany, South Africa, Argentina, Mexico and the United States.” Glaser stated that “Part of the characteristic of dissent when it’s at its best is fueled by empathy, and it’s fueled by the idea that other people matter, and that if somebody is hurt or victimized, we are all hurt or victimized. It is necessary for dissent to be expressed. It has to be expressed because to protect democracy, it’s the only hope we have.”