D3 F23 Symposium

The "Gangsta Mind" poster was designed to inform the public about gang violence and crime prevention. This poster highlights different speakers addressing the topic by providing background information, sharing experiences, and offering solutions. The design was inspired by gang culture such as graffiti, tattoos, and mugshots. Different techniques such as text hierarchy, text as image, photography, and color allows the poster to have an intriguing dynamic providing an opportunity for audience engagement.

The goal was to design a poster for a symposium on a topic of our choice. After being grouped, my group members and I did our research on animal cruelty and decided to use that as our concept. I concentrated on dog cruelty. The message I wanted to portray had to do with the dog murder. As a result, I experimented with making some bloody type to make it look like the message was written in the blood of the murdered dogs. I also took inspiration from Drake’s album “For All The Dogs” as a message for the symposium.

For this project, we had to design a symposium poster for a made-up Conference. In groups, we came up with topics to base our posters on. My group came up with the broad topic of addiction. I decided to create my symposium on the opioid crisis. With Research, I found speakers and talks relevant to My chosen topic. For my main art, I decided to write out the name of the conference, "Over Prescribed", in pills.

For this project, we divided into small groups and selected a topic for a symposium that we would then design typographic poster for, utilizing type as image. My group selected the topic of homelessness, and for my poster, I did homelessness in American veterans specifically. For the poster’s central design, I scribbled a message using a permanent marker onto a ripped piece of cardboard, which is something often done by homeless people calling for help. I used another piece of cardboard as the background to give the poster a color theme, and for the title I used stencil, a type that is often used by the U.S. military.

The Symposium project was more of a research and a type to image based project. My group had Homelessness and how/why they became homeless. I did domestic violence and homelessness which in-turn we had to find people that have dealt with it and that would speak on it.

In this project we create a poster based on a topic of importance. My genre was homelessness, and the basic topic of it was substance abuse in hopelessness.

At the beginning of this project, we were split into groups of four where we decided on a symposium topic. My group and I decided on a symposium to fight animal abuse. After coming up with a broad topic we then split off and worked on our symposium design individually. At the end of my project, I had chosen to design a symposium fighting the exotic fish trade. My symposium had keynote speakers from different animal rights organizations and the theme/design of my overall project was the ocean and marine life.

After the class was split into groups to discuss topics for a fake symposium, each member of the group went in a different direction from the general topic. My group’s overarching theme was crime, so I decided to focus on the injustice many face in the United State’s justice system. The typeface I used was made from my own stencil which I cut-out and painted onto paper before refining in Photoshop.

When tasked with making a Symposium Poster of our choices at first me and my group couldn't come up with ideas. After brainstorming with my group memebers we decided on tackling the problem of addiction. I chose Junk Food addiction because who doesn't love junk food. I had the cheetahs spill over my word "No More" to really have them move across the page as you read it. My Speaker paragraphs are brought to life with a bolded Orange heading that almost says read me.

This project we were assigned to create a poster for an upcoming symposium. After brainstorming with my group we decided on animal cruelty as the topic of our symposium. I made this poster seem very violent to appeal to the audiences using pathos, by seeing the brutality of the claw marks. I also utilized this with my color palette by keeping a dark background so the red claws really catch your eye. I decided on three guest speakers who are well versed in the topics, but all have completely different backgrounds and expertise to appeal to as many people as possible.