Design Brief
The manifesto calls for visual communicators to put their talents to work on more worthy pursuits.
Create a series of illustrations for charitable causes to be used in marketing campaigns that addresses environmental, social or cultural crises.
Research dichotomies and opposing ideologies, branding, Amnesty International posters, Grapus, environmentalism, sustainability, multinational corporate ideology, codes of ethics, Adbusters, responsibility, human rights, homelessness, poverty, war, famine, education, gender, peace, globalization, consumerism, stereotypes and social cognition, and The Green Imperative by Victor Papanek.
The topic i have chosen is peace. I have chosen peace because i think that's the thing that the people and the world needs now the most. Our kids are the future and the future needs to be exposed and educated about peace more so that they can create a better brighter future for all.
The 15 x 10 inch poster is amed at a mature audiance. About a audiance that is very peace concious and knows the real meaning of peace. The meaning of peace consists out of many other elements like love, harmony, getting along,
no racial boundaries etc. depending how one sees it.
Having sad that i have used only a few of those elements mentioned above and utialised them to make up some graphics to sand the message what peace means to me. The 15 x 10 poster i think is very strong graphicaly and holds a strong message from people that have influanced and inspired the human kind trough the centuries. I have used for egsample one of Albert Einsteins quotes about peace.
The tools that i have used to create this poster were mostly a wacom drawing tablet without that it is nearly impossible to do a curved line in photoshop,and the rest were all the photoshop tools like the brush tool, free transform,etc. and my visual diary. Some of the elements i have got out of the visual diary that were hand drawn like the hand reaching over the barbwire.
The dove is of one of the pieces that i have done in graphics design at high school.
The barbwire was inspired by a image of a novelty roll of toilet paper.Than it was drawn and tweaked into perspective to have it look isometric that would give me that hand reaching over the fence effect.
And that's about it i have chosen a blood red background to get my point across. the reason for red is because red generally is interpreted as a color of power, dominance, war, a warning sign for something bad, love, blood, etc.
I think that i could see this poster at a protest or something like that.
The inspiration came from various resources such as the internet, Google peace posters, etc.
The second peace 3x 6x6 was aimed to be sold in three different pieces it was very hard to create three peaces that had a single meaning as a unity but also a individual meaning as individual peaces if they got sold off seperatly.
I have decided to create a feeld of peace flowers for a highschool wall or at the children hospital or something like that. I think the reason for choosing the field of flowers reminde me of kids and childhood and also the growth. Don't know very complex. Art always is. In general for the younger audience using some of the quotes about peace and the definition of peace written by they peers across the world.
Both the left and the right side have text in them accept the middle i have left the middle message out so that the audience can decide for them self what they would like to have in there, like some brain food.:) What would it mean to them? To me personally the middle link is what completes the circle and i would personally call it unity or together we are stronger.
The piece consists out of only 3 elements, the dots,the stems and the peace symbols. The text i have got of this website http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peaceday/poem/poem.asp.
Very inspiring to see what the younger generation thinks what peace is.
And here is the artwork
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