Yay Sketches!

 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 powerfully show this and inform the viewers of what is happening that they can't necessarily see. I need to figure out a way to show this graphically- the things that are submerged vs. the things that are not submerged. It has definitely been a slow start (but my best projects usually begin this way haha). Below are my initial sketches:

Water- access to safe drinking water
so I have a person drinking dirty water full of gross things, the same with a cup full of nasty molecules or waves and a droplet of water made up of text describing the affects?

I was really interested in text making up different images for some reason- I think this is definitely something to explore but for sure needs to be pushed further

Air- fumes from factories
First image shows lungs (basic 1st idea) and then focuses on proximity between factories and housing and also just fumes/smoke that would also be made up text going back to that same idea with water


Land- soil degredation --> food security
A dying plant with the roots having the information about why OR a grocery store setting with bad produce

Plastics- also fumes from toxic waste plants and how plastics are created- negative affects in our daily lives
Tupperware with toxic logos on it, fumes creating everyday plastic items, or just a collage of plastic items that cause harm

Fire- TBD

Animal Agriculture- TBD

Some general notes from critique that I found interesting: using text to introduce wit (for example, "Welcome" or "Home"), personalize the content of posters (ex. the amount of plastic items that people own or throw out--> things that people don't even think about), or showing WHERE your plastic goes (for example 20 year olds in western world vs. 20 year olds in another country) 








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