Aaron Wood, an illustrator has beautifully and creatively designed social media propaganda posters, and likes to call it 'Social Media War!'. These posters could have gone unnoticed but thanks to +Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable who shared them on Google Plus and from there on these posters went viral. They were appreciated so much all over the web that Aaron has not been able to catch his breath due to endless orders that he has been receiving on Etsy. These wartime social networking posters cover three social media giants: Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter.

Other than posters by +Aaron Wood, I also came across similar World War II Propaganda posters by Brian Winfield Moore. Someone had accused Aaron of plagiarizing Brian's poster, who has been selling his illustrations for almost 2 years now. But both being complete gentlemen acknowledged and appreciated each other's work, thereby denying any act of plagiarism.



Here's what Aaron had to say on his Google+ profile about this accusation:

"It seems someone on Reddit has called me out for plagiarizing and ripping off his friend's work that he's been trying to sell for the last 2 years. I honestly had NO idea about his work until I saw his post on Reddit about 1/2 hour ago. As a token of respect for his friend's work, (and hopefully to help him sell some of HIS poster) I'm, going to post a link here to them. Please check them out! :)"

Here's what Brian replied:

"Wow, just caught wind of this now - I made the posters you're linking here (my friend who cried plagiarism let me know you had made these).

By no means whatsoever is this plagiarism. As you can tell from what people are saying here, mine are based entirely on WWII posters what are in public domain. And, come on, propaganda + the internet has been explored before and is by no means a small topic.

Your posters, on the other hand, rock. That's awesome that you're selling so many - once you get more in stock, expect me to be your next customer."

Its refreshing to see people behaving in a cordial manner, specially when being 'politically incorrect' seems to be the trend these days.

Here's what Aaron Wood created:















































Brian drew inspiration for his posters from Iran election protest and activism in 2009. "WWII Propaganda Posters were conceived as a mostly playful statement on wartime, citizen journalism, censorship, and how they all play with the advent of the Internet." he says. Here's what Brian created:

Loose Tweets Sink Fleets

Someone Tweeted

Because Somebody Blogged

Rosie The Redditor

Support Net Neutrality

'Google Earth' proof

Wikipedia is Free

Torrent Your MP3s

These posters can be brought from store.briiiiian.com.

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