Good to see a review on the RESOURCED portfolio. That said it would have been good had the reviewer, Greg Cook, actually thought about the work and interviewed Justseeds’ artists to learn about the finer details of the project and it’s overall mission.
Unfortunately Cook’s review is a list of the images he likes and those he does not with no mention about the content or the campaigns behind the work. Reviews based solely on aesthetic interests are not helpful to anyone.
His quote “Great political posters grab our hearts and make the politics involved look cool” is arguably the most hare-brained statement about art and politics that I have read in a long, long time. That takes some doing. Hopefully some critical reviews will surface in the months and years to come as the portfolio continues to be exhibited and utilized around the world.

Maybe a touch of sour grapes.
I do appreciate any and all reviews and understand a limited word count so quotes from the artists who created and organized the project may have been unreasonable, but the reporter might have learned more about the complexities of the project with a few phone calls to the artists regardless if the quotes appeared or not. For all I know he might have talked in depth with Meredith so I am only speculating.
I do agree that graphics can and should speak for themselves so that alone is a good argument for Justseeds to carefully critique our work to make the strongest portfolios and graphics for movements as possible.
That said, I am against the “making graphics / movements look cool” as a set formula for a successful political poster.
Each graphic and movement demands different strategies. Arguably the most famous political poster of the second half of the 20th Century was the AWC “My Lai” poster and there is nothing “cool” about that image. It was about exposing a horrific act with a horrific image. Perhaps another way of reaching people on an emotional level.