Government Posters in HCM city

Government posters are ones that from the government whose purpose is to propagate the national policy, or to celebrate or recall historical events, or to advise or reflect a contemporary social evil, or so forth. In other words, these posters are not for commercial purpose. In HCM city, you can see many of these posters especially at places around hospital or national institutes.

There used to be lots of these posters in the past in almost many places in the city. However, a number of these posters have reduced in quantity and be replaced by other commercial posters nowadays. It makes sense because of the changing of the city or the nation in general after war.

These posters do not only differentiate commercial ones from meaning or purpose but also from their special design.

As you can see below, all of the posters are paintings (not photographs); they all take advantages of the use of primary colors (red, green, yellow and blue) which are easy-to-see colors even at a distant point of view. the combination of these colors can also create a clear contrast.The reason why these colors are used is to get a harmony with the national flag of Vietnam.In general, the design is simple and can transfer the behind messages the government want to say.

Following are some examples I did capture to get you have a clearer image of how they look.

The first one is to celebrate an historical event happening in September 23rd 1945.



This one is about a symple of a yellow star get lighted in the freedom .It represent the spirit of the the national event happened in September 2nd 1945.



The slogan of this one is "Let's bring into play the nation's tradition of being in love with the country, being active and creative; together we'll build a rich-beautiful-civilizationed-modern city."





This one is to reflect the fect of driving at high speed in the city which leads to accident.



These three final ones are the context of where these poster are placed in the city.