Week 2 Thursday Class

Quick Poster Designs

During class we produced quick poster designs, some from our thumbnails sketches. The purpose of the exercise was to get the creative juices flowing and being productive, weather it was using cut, paste and copy by hand or quick designs using the noun project symbols/images on illustrator/photoshop.

I used the noun project app during this exercise to acquire symbols and images.

The class pinned up during the end of class for feedback, I pinned up my black and white sheep poster on racism, receiving good feedback, that it was clear and to the point.

During class I rephrased my topic sentence to "casual racism reinforces inequality in New Zealand" as "casual racism in NZ" was not specific enough. 

Below are some ideas/designs achieved during class:

Trying to show the difference of races with black and white, coming together in agreement in
the symbol of a handshake. To be equal and on equal terms, NZ without racism.

Once again showing different races, black, white and yellow with type. Trying to make them merge into once,
could change the saying to these are colours not races/people.

Need to work on how I could show racism in a joke, a joking matter that i can then say is not okay. Starting to experiment with this in this poster, both are joking faces but one is joking and crying at the same time because racism hurts feelings of people. Trying to show the separation of race through the colours black and white.

Experimenting with using imagery as text, using black panther fist to spell out a phrase/word/meaning. Contrasting with white stop hands, the black "dots/hands" will spell out a word. Need to make the scale a lot smaller in order to spell the word easier and have more space to breathe. 

This was my class pin up option, simple yet effective in showing inequality with the separation of one black sheep from a herd/bunch of white sheep.