An A-Level Project in 2015 where our goal was to communicate a message of a personal taboo. For me, I abhor racism, I've never understood its purpose and have felt its pain many times. For me, it was a prime candidate to communicate about. This is to showcase all my digital work (I no longer have my sketchbook to showcase planning work).

Software: Photoshop (Imagery), InDesign (Layout)

Inspired by the Bauhaus, I took a modular approach, choosing to use an analogy of the difference in shapes being the same as the difference in people, yet we don't really care about different shapes. Also, shapes are a simple, universal visual language that transcends language barriers: a perfect fit for a universal topic like racism.

The first time I ever dabbled in InDesign was this project, where poster and editorials were explored in a workshop. A combination of photos taken that year were used, all recoloured using InDesign's dual colour feature. The layouts themselves aimed to balance a traditional and modern feel, since racism is embedded in history but remains relevant to today's society. Needless to say, I had some mixed results since I didn't consider legibility all that much.

Even though the typefaces used here contrast, and my choices perhaps weren't as good as they could have been, I'm fond of this design for its less conventional approach to layout. That contradicts my earlier point of balancing the old and new, but the modular circles and the largely clean layout with space appeals to me more than my other designs.

Using new photos which felt specific to my topic and taking the atmospheric dual-colour theme forward has ultimately resulted in posters using a more illustrative approach compared to my initial designs. At the cost of a more potent and powerful presentation of my message is the loss of that initial universal language that I had adopted.