D2 S21 P3

My final poster had to address a social, political, or environmental issue that I consider important. I focused on the pandemic and my view on wearing masks. My composition of the two faces having a standoff was to show the semi-confrontational vision of how there are two sides. The text encourages people to take a stand and do what is helpful for themselves and their neighbors around them. The poster is addressing the importance of having to keep a mask on during the pandemic in order to be able to move forward.

The poster was created to address my choice of an environmental issue that I consider important. I chose to focus on the issue of disposing of masks properly to keep from harming animals in the environment. I used Adobe Illustrator and took the well known character of Dory from “Finding Nemo” and her line of “Just Keep Swimming” to contrast it with “Can’t Keep Swimming” with a mask twisted around her fin. It takes a well known character and addresses an issue created during this pandemic.

For our final project of the semester, we were asked to create a poster that addresses an issue that we found important. I researched how mental health was affected by the covid-19 pandemic. I created a design that shows a brain wearing a mask, the main message is "Keep your mind healthy." Surrounding the image of the brain that I drew, are words that the population was concerned about during the pandemic.

These posters are meat to bring peoples attention to the social change issue of global warming and its effects on the arctic. To create a cohesive series, the posters use a similar color palette and illustration style with a range in scale. The ice cream cone is the most distant, then the iceberg of the sea levels are rising, and finally the closest is the two penguins. Each poster uses familiarity to identify with the viewer; an ice cream cone to represent the earth melting, penguins using floaties, and an iceberg to complete the type of the final poster.

These posters are meat to bring peoples attention to the social change issue of global warming and its effects on the arctic. To create a cohesive series, the posters use a similar color palette and illustration style with a range in scale. The ice cream cone is the most distant, then the iceberg of the sea levels are rising, and finally the closest is the two penguins. Each poster uses familiarity to identify with the viewer; an ice cream cone to represent the earth melting, penguins using floaties, and an iceberg to complete the type of the final poster.

These posters are meat to bring peoples attention to the social change issue of global warming and its effects on the arctic. To create a cohesive series, the posters use a similar color palette and illustration style with a range in scale. The ice cream cone is the most distant, then the iceberg of the sea levels are rising, and finally the closest is the two penguins. Each poster uses familiarity to identify with the viewer; an ice cream cone to represent the earth melting, penguins using floaties, and an iceberg to complete the type of the final poster.

I'm interested in the topic of neighborhood reclamation and protecting habitat and wildlife at even from a small ecological scale. The poster I designed uses the forms of wildflowers from my own yard to create the type. I tried to use the shape of the flowers to inform how the letters were formed and not force the curvature on them. The type is used as image as the main focal point and a secondary message below reads as the call to action.

I'm interested in the topic of neighborhood reclamation and protecting habitat and wildlife at even from a small ecological scale. The poster I designed uses the forms of wildflowers from my own yard to create the type. I tried to use the shape of the flowers to inform how the letters were formed and not force the curvature on them. The type is used as image as the main focal point and a secondary message below reads as the call to action.

This project was aimed to create a poster that addresses real problems like political, environmental, or other existing issues. In this project, an environmental issue was addressed, which was focusing on stopping global warming. The project included earth that split into half, which on the left side, the earth was destroyed via factories and pollution. However, the other side was thriving and had life. The project was illustrated by using different techniques like figure-ground, color contrast, and typography. The project was first hand-drawn and then was vectorized using illustrator.

This project was aimed to create a poster that addresses real problems like political, environmental, or other existing issues. In this project, an environmental issue was addressed, which was focusing on stopping global warming. The project included earth that split into half, which on the left side, the earth was destroyed via factories and pollution. However, the other side was thriving and had life. The project was illustrated by using different techniques like figure-ground, color contrast, and typography. The project was first hand-drawn and then was vectorized using illustrator.

For project 3, I was assigned to create a poster. The poster had to convey a message about some issue we that we think is important. The issue I chose to focus on was the harmful impacts of the fishing industry. Within this issue, we created 3 posters and eventually narrowed it down to one. The final topic of my poster was shark finning. I created an illustrated poster of shark fin soup and urged people to stop allowing shark finning.

The poster project was to create a poster on a global issue. We brainstormed in groups during class and I was really interested in global warming. I wanted to focus on the animals that are endangered by global warming, such as polar bears. I think this issue is very important, since it’s becoming a rising problem. Our Earth needs to start being taken care of by everyone to save it and the life it nurtures. Polar bears are starting to lose their land due to the melting of glaciers and icebergs. I want my poster to bring sympathy and concern to the observer, which might make them want to start helping and taking care of the environment that we live in.

I decided to create a poster focusing on the increased Asian American hate fueled by the Coronavirus pandemic. The poster mimics a tarot card that represents reflecting. The card reads “The Virus” showing the hate that is the actual virus spreading. The hand silences the crying Asian woman with the American flag symbolism to show the hate fueled by a leader who endorsed Asian hate by calling the virus the “Kung Flu” and “Chinese Virus.” The poster inhabits a muted patriotic color scheme mixed with Chinese elements of Yin Yang symbol and Chinese lanterns. Along with this, constellations are also incorporated to show the astronomical aspect of the tarot card.

For this project I had to chose an issue that I found important and make a poster for it. I chose to make a poster for Hemophilia Awareness because it is a very rare genetic condition and from my experience very few people outside of the Hemophilia community know about it. It gets it's nickname, "The Royal Disease" from Queen Victoria being a carrier of the gene and passing it down to many of her descendants who would marry into other royal families, such as the Spanish throne, and most notably the Romanov family in Russia.

The purpose of this project was to create a poster that focus on a current problem or event in today's world and I decided to do a poster about climate change. Instead of talking broadly about all the problems climate change has given us, I narrowed it down to how climate change is causing the ocean water temperatures to rise and harming the fish. That is what my poster illustrates.

The goal of this project was to bring attention to an issue we are currently facing in the world. I focused on the idea of redlining and the effects that it has had present day. The effects of something that happened many years ago has created "invisible boundaries" that affect neighborhoods in cities today.

The poster project had the class decide on an environmental, social, etc. issue and create a poster that strongly conveys that certain message. I chose to create a poster design on the treatment of animals that are kept in captivity and created a design based on the reported treatment of the sea creatures in SeaWorld. To show how everything is not what they seem.

For my project I wanted the audience to grasp the importance of my message of stopping deforestation. When looking at the project I wanted the audience to gain an eerie feeling, as captured by the dark colors and the symbolism throughout. The message on top acts as more of an emphasis on the importance of the message, as its intertwined within the roots. The audiences’ eyes are supposed to trickle from the middle of the stump to the ends of the roots.

The poster design I have created was made to spread awareness of sexual harassment in women. The zine I created is a story about a boy who loved chocolate but later was unable to eat it due to having developed chip pox. Through his jealousy of seeing everyone else enjoy chocolate he decided to create a potion that would give everyone else chip pox but ended up making chocolate even more delicious. He was named the hero of the city.

For my poster project, I created a graphic about the school to prison pipeline in Philadelphia. The goal of the Poster Project was to choose a topic of choice that would spread a powerful message on a poster. In my poster, I took the traditional school doodles and transformed them into messages of prison. The student in the center shows that the school district is “fixed” but in reality, it is not. By using subtle symbols and acknowledgments to prison, the poster addresses the problem of institutionalized racism in the school system.

My poster project is supposed to be a way of shedding light on the issue of suicide, especially in adolescents and young adults and to hopefully give people in that situation and hopeful message about seeking help.