Our first project of the semester in Design As Author was to create a pair of advocacy posters. Possible themes for the project include dissent, liberation, racism, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy, and tolerance.
Among our research resources is an on-line exhibition The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice, and the Environment, 1965-2005 (www.thegraphicimperative.org). The Graphic Imperative is a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters. The 111 posters in this ex- hibition emphasize the issues of our turbulent times and endeavor to show the social, political, and aesthetic concerns of many cultures and divergent political realities.
Of the pair of advocacy posters that I designed one used type and image and the other used type as image. I had to choose: 1) the actual advocacy group that would sponsor the message 2) the specific issue/message of the poster 3) the targeted audience that the poster seeks to address and 4) propose the remedy or action for the specific issue/problem
Among our research resources is an on-line exhibition The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice, and the Environment, 1965-2005 (www.thegraphicimperative.org). The Graphic Imperative is a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters. The 111 posters in this ex- hibition emphasize the issues of our turbulent times and endeavor to show the social, political, and aesthetic concerns of many cultures and divergent political realities.
Of the pair of advocacy posters that I designed one used type and image and the other used type as image. I had to choose: 1) the actual advocacy group that would sponsor the message 2) the specific issue/message of the poster 3) the targeted audience that the poster seeks to address and 4) propose the remedy or action for the specific issue/problem
