GIVE MOMS PEACE.
This campaign is dedicated to the many mothers in our community that are mourning their children today, and every day. Our hearts are with you.
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On this day, as mothers, we create in solidarity with the many that have lost their children to senseless gun violence.
As mothers, this is unimaginable.
We find ourselves living in fear of everyday routines — taking our children to school, visiting a shopping center or movie theatre, shopping at a grocery store, and more. Our phones buzz with daily reminders- alerts of guns in schools and mass shootings.
As mothers that are graphic designers, we use our communication tools to demand change. On this day and every day, we demand:
GIVE MOMS PEACE
ENACT GUN SENSE
BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS
GUN CONTROL NOW
GUN CONTROL NOW
GUN CONTROL NOW
We have brought these graphics to local highly visible spaces — fences, our front yards, and the digital space and created free downloadable posters and social media graphics. These can be used in support of this critical demand; in rallies, on your social media feed, in a storefront, and anywhere and everywhere until we see gun control in this country.
Please point your platform’s audiences to organizations that are doing this work, and making great strides toward ending gun-related violence.
momsdemandaction.org
everytown.org
gunsensevoter.org
wearorange.org
marchforourlives.com
sandyhookpromise.org
About the Design
GIVE MOMS PEACE is a series of layered, typographic messages that encapsulate the language of the movement.
Roxane Gataud’s typeface Bely, created by merging rectangles and triangles, combines plain rectangular slabs on the bottoms of its letterforms with sharp triangular serifs on top. It is striking and demands attention. Its slanted counter forms, presented in groups, emphasize the power of collective and grassroots initiatives. Presented in varied scales, large typography leads the phrases of action, stitched together by a background texture repeating the phrase GUN CONTROL NOW.
Using the color orange as a foundation, we acknowledge the groundwork laid by important national organizations and movements that fight for gun sense and honor those that we have lost and survivors of gun violence.