While the human rights activists who are against the Beijing Olympics continue to build momentum for their cause, so with them come the designers. By way of 1+1=3, we ran across this great story in The Age newspaper on the role designers are playing in the protests, from creating parody ads to work for Amnesty International to miscellaneous YouTube films calling out the Chinese government for what the activists believe to be poor human rights considerations. Here's a bit:

The IOC's most sacred symbol, the five interlocking rings, have also been targeted.

In one image used by the French organisation Committee for Supporters of Tibet, the Olympic rings are shown as tank tracks.

In a poster, originally published by Amnesty's branch in Slovakia and later withdrawn, the rings are depicted as barbed wire loops. The image shows a man pointing a gun at the head of prisoner.

The poster uses the slogan "China is getting ready", the same one being used by the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee in the lead-up to the Games.