Poster Design

 Here is my first draft of my poster focusing on water! I'm highlighting that access to safe drinking water is a human right. I was really influenced/inspired by a comment made during critique last week that I think shaped my direction for this poster. Someone had brought up that my posters focused on things that are somewhat hidden, or under the surface. That idea made me think about how I could emphasize this dichotomy between the hidden and the aware. The bottom portion is what people tend to be unaware of: in this case unsafe drinking water than can lead to health issues and complications. On top is supposed to be clean, safe drinking water which there is a misconception that this is readily available to everyone. Though because of pollution, and because water is a finite natural resource that we are depleting. I had also separated the word "safe" from "drinking water" to imply that they are not synonymous.  Some notes from critique that I plan on using for ...

 I have started sketching!! I definitely need to dig deeper than these iterations but definitely a good start and a good way for me to start visually articulating my ideas. Until this point I was thinking too abstractly and not sure how to visualize this. In class today I explained my poster design series as representing the human side of these environmental issues-not just how they affect the planet but how they affect the human beings involved. I think this is a good way to describe my approach. During small group critique, some of my peers pointed out that my ideas come from the behind-the-scenes aspects of environmental issues, for example the things that you don't necessarily see have a direct effect. I think this is interesting because this is exactly what I was focusing on from the beginning. My initial thoughts centered around how it is easy for people to feel removed from these issues when they are not necessarily SEEING how they are affecting them. I want my posters to po...

 This is a bit late but I had a migraine all weekend and was not able to flush it out :/ But here it is! It is definitely subject to change as things are still flexible. It will be updated at the end of the project as it will be a running doc. Enjoy! The Client:  Our client for this project is Greenpeace. Greenpeace is a global, independent campaigning organization (an NGO) that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. These posters will act as public service announcements on behalf of Greenpeace to share our environment’s story and how our actions as humans can help to change the course of our planet’s future.  (can add more if we meet with Greenpeace) The Audience:  Greenpeace’s audience is the larger public who are interested in helping the environment as well as those less knowledgeable. Greenpeace’s many campaigns centered around crucial envir...

As I continue writing my proposal I need to think less abstractly about my posters. I have begun to narrow down my topic. I think it is okay to begin abstractly but that can't be for the entirety of the project. I was recently going through my bookshelf and reorganizing and I came across my two old books from Environmental Justice (ENVIRON 222) that I took last year at the beginning of Sophomore Year. For some reason when approaching this class after learning our posters would be about the environment I did want to make the connection to my environmental justice class, as I have created work centered around it before and felt it was important to move on to a different topic. But after listening to my peers' discussions about their topics and how they are approaching this project, I have actually changed my mind (which is ok) and think connecting these posters to all that I learned in environmental justice would be really amazing and be the perfect way to tie all of these enviro...

 I loved watching the different films! I think this was a great way for me to collect some initial research based on what I learned. I watched the 3 films on Kanopy: Company Town, From Flint: Voices from a Poisoned City, and Plastic Planet as well as the other links that were given to us. Out of these additional materials, my favorite film was The Story of Stuff. I think this video did a great job of explaining the comprehensive view of how materials are made, why, where they do, how they affect us, etc. (Please see below for my notes on the films) One piece of information that has truly stuck with me throughout all of the films relates to plastic. This is something I am considering including in my plastic poster. The fact that the collective amount of all plastic made since the beginning of time could wrap around the whole Earth seven times. I think presenting this visually through illustration or in a diagram could be a really powerful visual. By just thinking about it we can't c...