Usually, a blue plaque on to a building in place to celebrate the achievements and the life of someone who previously lived there. However, in a new campaign by Killed Women, plaques have been installed temporarily to house facades in the UK to commemorate the lives of women murdered by men inside the location.
On average, men who have killed women in the home serve about 10 years fewer than those who have killed women outside of it, according to the organisation Killed Women. The campaign is to highlight “outdated and misogynistic” UK domestic homicide sentencing laws.
“We want the symbolism of these plaques to raise this issue in the House of Commons. While this won’t bring our loved ones home, at the very least families of future victims will be consoled by the knowledge that justice has been served.”
The Graphical Tree were commissioned by brand agency Earnies to make each of the bespoke plaques used in the campaign.
The technique to produce the individual discs involved direct-to-media print with white ink to an outdoor durable media. Then a reverse print was applied on the same disk backed with white. 3mm matt acrylic letters were then cut to shape and adhered for each name, and all inserted into an acrylic frame and back piece.
Find out more about this valuable work through the Killed Women website.
