There's a lot going for @AOC: she's a once-in-a-generation gifted orator, she's got a sharp political mind, she's got the humility and self-awareness to surround herself with other smart people and recruit them to advise her.

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But even her most ardent admirers tend to overlook the role of graphic design in her work. From the start - her initial primary campaign - she has led the field with striking, beautiful graphic design. I framed one of her posters and hung it my house.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/29687015957/

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AOC's latest graphic campaign is in support of the #GreenNewDeal, a visionary proposal for a better future that has been sorely lacking in visual materials.

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(The major exception being @mollycrabapple's animation in "A Message From the Future," an @intercept video with AOC and @NaomiAKlein).



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The new posters recall the WPA illustrations for the National Park Service, icons of design that retain remarkable currency nearly a century later.

https://www.loc.gov/collections/works-progress-administration-posters/?fa=subject%3Anational+parks+%26+reserves

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There are six in all. The first is Gavin Snider's Flushing Meadows poster, celebrating the 1939 New York World's Fair, a high water mark for hope in a moment of crisis.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/all/products/flushing-meadows-gnd-poster

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Next is Scott Starrett's Pelham Bay Park poster, celebrating the Bronx's most iconic WPA success story, a beloved beach and golf course.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/all/products/pelham-bay-park-gnd-poster

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The third poster is Gavin Snider's tribute to LA's Griffith Observatory, the centerpiece of one of the country's exemplary, beloved and well-used city parks.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/all/products/griffin-observatory-gnd-poster

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Fourth is Lazarus Nazario's poster celebrating the Plaza Del Totem in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a symbol of indigenous resilience erected as a rebuttal to the shameful celebration of the great historic monster Christopher Columbus.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/all/products/plaza-del-totem-gnd-poster

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Fifth is Gavin Snider's poster for Detroit's Hart Plaza, whose monument commemorates the Underground Railroad in one of America's great historically Black cities, a city that has been brutalized by white supremacy and austerity.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/all/products/hart-plaza-gnd-poster

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Finally, there's Dayi Tofu's commemoration of Boston's Public Garden, part of the city's "Emerald Necklace" of urban parks.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/all/products/the-public-garden-gnd-poster

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The posters are a reminder that we are not the fallen remnants of a lost civilization, no longer capable of visionary collective projects to secure our future. We have done this before and we can do it again.

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We are not atomized individuals, incapable of effecting change beyond the scope of what one person can do - or what one billionaire can coerce. We are a society, and we can steer our course.

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The posters are union made, 18" x 12", and cost $24 each. You can get all six in a $90 bundle.

https://shop.ocasiocortez.com/collections/all/products/green-new-deal-poster-pack

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