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Fri 09 Sep 2009Experts give thumbs up to No vote poster campaigns
WHETHER THEY are professional graphic designers or enthusiastic amateurs, what the creative types behind every Lisbon Treaty poster are praying for is the Holy Grail of any political campaign: "talkability", writes
MARY MINIHAN
Happily for No campaigners Cóir, their posters have achieved what designers call "cut-through" in an increasingly-crowded platform, not only with its posters' contentious messages - "€1.84 minimum wage after Lisbon?" - but also with the unconventional appearance of its playful-looking pink heart-shaped cut-outs.
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