Glug 17 - The Global Goals

  • Craig Black
In September 2015, 193 world leaders signed up to the UN’s Global Goals initiative. This set out 17 development goals across those countries based around three key themes: ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injustice, and fixing climate change. To help build awareness around this,
Glug invited 17 artists, designers and studios, to create a poster around one of the goals each.

I was asked to reflect on the goal ‘No Poverty’.

Reducing poverty has become an international concern, yet there is no international consensus on guidelines for measuring poverty. There is no single definition of poverty, it is not so black and white. The definitions and levels of poverty vary from country to country around the world therefore the varied typographic elements of ‘poverty’ represents these differences yet they all have a connecting factor that is human identity. The idea is that if we continue to use our hands and work together collectively then the word ‘poverty’ will eventually disappear, striving towards our goal of ‘No Poverty’ around the world.