Gegen Siebenschläfer National Zeitung (Karl Gerstner) posters idealism and creative imagination were

idealism and creative imagination were almost the only means to survive

Jonathan Barnbrook

Lance refers to this as his first poster

and articles about Chris Ware

Gegen Siebenschläfer National Zeitung (Karl Gerstner) posters idealism and creative imagination wereDesigned in 1959 by Karl Gerstner for Basels progressive National Zeitung (National Newspaper), this striking beauty transforms an alarm clock into a powerful metaphor for civic alertness. Operating through his agency GGK, Gerstner used crisp, objective photography to frame the morning paper as an antidote to societal slumber. The text gegen Siebenschlfer cleverly weaponizes a German idiom for "late sleepers" or hibernating dormice,* positioning