"The image started showing up on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram within hours of the attacks in Paris: a simple, slightly off-kilter rendering of the Eiffel Tower framed by a circle so as to look like a peace sign. Most people who shared the image, which has since become the dominant visual symbol of grief over the attacks, probably didn’t know where it originated, or who was responsible for coming up with it.… the creator of the drawing was a French illustrator named Jean Jullien, who posted it to his Twitter page around midnight Paris-time with the caption “Peace for Paris,” and watched it swiftly take flight. Jullien, whose work tends to be marked by a light touch and a breezy, sometimes high concept sense of humor, has made a habit of reacting to the news in graphic form before, drawing pictures to mark the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the legalization of gay marriage in Ireland, and the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris last January."
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Leon Neyfakh, in "Meet the Artist Behind the Eiffel Tower Peace Sign" in Slate (14 November 2015)
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Jean Jullien
Jean Jullien (born 14 March 1983) is a French graphic designer who created a variation of a classic Peace symbol which was modified to resemble the Eiffel Tower in the wake of the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. The image swiftly became viral through social media and news coverage of affirmation of worldwide sympathies and solidarity against terrorism.
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