The 'Peace' signs's 50th Birthday.

[Camy]

The 'Peace' sign, the world's best-known protest symbol turns 50

It started life as the emblem of the British anti-nuclear movement but it has become an international sign for peace, and arguably the most widely used protest symbol in the world. It has also been adapted, attacked and commercialised.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7292252.stm

I never knew that it was one semaphore letter superimposed over another! N(uclear) and D(isarmament) placed within a circle symbolising the Earth.

Go here: http://www.peacesymbol.org grab one, and get designing.

All hail Gerald Holtom!

Camy

[Bruin Fisher]

I never knew that it was one semaphore letter superimposed over another! N(uclear) and D(isarmament) placed within a circle symbolising the Earth.

Camy

--- I'd been reading the BBC article about it, too. And Holtom hoped it would be seen as a person extending their arms outwards and downwards, palms out in a gesture of despair...

Later critics said it would be better inverted to look more positive/hopeful.

Bruin