Gallery: The Bloody History of War, Illustrated by Design Legend Seymour Chwast
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Seymour Chwast next to his "End Bad Breath" poster in 1968."
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Chwast's new book, "At War With War," is a 5,000 year timeline of warfare.
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The book contains 35 black and white illustrations of infamous battles.
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The book is something of a follow up to his 1957 book "A Book of Battles" in which Chwast depicted 3,000 years of war.
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The new book is now raising funds on Kickstarter.
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Chwast illustrated each of the wars in a different style. The Iraq war, seen here, was made by woodcutting.
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Chwast in his studio.
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Here, the silhouettes of bodies bombed in Hiroshima, Japan.
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Chwast's book is entirely black and white, save for the red lettering of the timeline.
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Chwast has long used graphic design as a mode of political activism.
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The designer does expect his book to change the course of history.
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Rather it's a record of the world's inability to cease fighting.
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Chwast's "End Bad Breath" poster from 1968.
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