Smiling Sun

The logo nuclear power? No thanks, also anti-nuclear (power) Sun, called laughing or red sun, is the most famous logo of the anti - nuclear movement.

Formation

The idea was the then 22 -year-old economics student Anne Lund from Denmark in March 1975. Following discussions with Søren Lisberg, another activist, she drew in April 1975 with an orange crayon for the first time the logo with the original slogan " Nuclear power? Nej tak ". The first 500 buttons with the logo found enthusiastic buyers in Aarhus during the first May Day rally in 1975. Goals at the time were,

• Access in the tense confrontation at ease. The lettering is not a requirement, but a question ( "Nuclear power? ") That he ( " No thanks " ) also friendly and polite answers,
• Demonstrate an alternative to nuclear power (the sun),
• A simple, recognizable image or logo to create.

Dissemination

Even until 1977, around one million copies were sold in 16 countries solely on the buttons. The copyright was at this time at the Danish anti -nuclear organization organizations til Oplysning om nuclear power (OOA ) in Copenhagen.

The logo is one of the world's most well-known. Since the first widely used in small series runs it has been translated into 45 languages ​​and is now distributed millions.

According to the OOA original designs can be seen since 2000 in the Danish National Museum. As an expression of contemporary history Buttons can also be seen in the German Historical Museum.

A well-known, several meters high copy of the logo is located since 1975 in the building Vestergade 7 in Aarhus, Denmark, and there is a popular postcard.

The subject is at the EU Office for Harmonization as a figurative Community trade mark No 004193091 " NUCLEAR POWER? NO THANKS " registered as a trademark. Environmental organizations that want to use the logo must be paid to the Danish foundation against nuclear power symbolic royalties. The proceeds from this will be invested in projects of the anti-nuclear power movement.

Images of logos

Logo in Aarhus (see above)

A flag at the Berlin Ostermarsch 2011