Peace Turns 50
BBC just posted an interesting article about the peace symbol. Something I didn’t know. The peace symbol originally was as the emblem for the British anti-nuclear movement. Then later the US adopted this emblem in the 60’s and 70’s during The civil rights movements, anti-Vietnam protest and woman and gay-rights movements.
The emblem actually had a lot of thought put into it. You can see above how the semaphore (flag-signaler) is morphing the 2 letters N & D to make one. N & D standing for Nuclear Disarmament. The designer Gerald Holtom later explained that the design was “to mean a human being in despair” with arms outstretched downwards.
Check out the rest of the article on the BBC
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