Project 01: Poster for Change/Social Justice
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Project 01: Poster For Change Alex Anderson
VISC 304
KU Spring 2022
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Project Brief Posters can deliver power messages that resonate and become catalysts for change. Poster communicate across generations and some of the most power posters still resonate with us today. The visual grammar of protest is reactive and immediate, demonstrating passion and commitment. By themselves, they do not generate progress, but they try to inspire, energize and motivate the society too propel to action. You will choose and
organization advocating for a social justice cause that is important to you. Research the history of the organization and also the social issues that they are seeking to change. You will design two posters that highlights your organization or social justice cause. You will also create a piece of editorial art that would accompany a feature story about your casue / organization.
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Organization presentations
Jan 20
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) The ACLU is a non-profit organization founded in 1920, following
cation, Roe v Wade, etc. Working through Litigation and Lobbying,
World War II and its spread of Marxist fears throughout Ameri-
the ACLU has 1.7 million members and is active in all 50 states.
ca. In November of 1919 and January of 1920, Attorney General
Beyond its conception, it has evolved and grown to take on differ-
Mitchell Palmer began unrightfully seizing and deporting so-called
ent issues such as government abuses, free speech, the death
radicals without a warrant or regard to constitutional protection
penalty, LGBT rights, abortion, immigration, and more.
where those captured were kept in brutal conditions. Thus bore the American Civil Liberty Union “to defend and preserve the
Their main audience is the General Public to better inform them
individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this
and persude them to elect officials that can help their causes / in-
country by the Constitution and laws of the United States”. The
dividuals who have been subject to unlawful actions against their
influence of the ACLU has been persuasive in a lot of American
civil liberties and providing legal assistance.
history especially in historic cases such as the Scopes trials, Fighting Japanese Internment Camps, Brown v. the Board of Edu-
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National Low Income Housing Coalition The National Low Income Housing Coalition is a non-profit with the purpose of ending the American affordable housing crisis. Founded in 1974 by Cushing Dolbeare, the NLIHC was created in response to Richard Nixon’s 1973 moratorium on federal housing subsidies. Seeing the major issues of poor people’s lack of affordable housing, the organization’s main goal has been to expand and preserve the housing for extremely low-income individuals as well as provide current data, formulate policies, and give awareness to housing insecurity and the stigma around it. Their audience is low income people in need of affordable housing options as well as educating individuals of the issue at hand.
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Sketch + Ideation (35) IMAGE
(35) TYPE
Jan 25
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(35) IMAGE-BASED _Symbols of American Liberty + Voting Iconography _Destruction/Restriction/Distortion of Voting _Felony Disenfranchisment/Gerrymandering/Wait Lines _Sense of Helplessness + Denial of Civil Liberties
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(35) TYPE-BASED _Statistics + Call to Action Phrases _Prominent Composition _Incorporate Type + Image better _Inspirational/Eye-catching
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Image Poster Studies (5) IMAGE-BASED POSTERS STUDIES
Jan 27
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(5) IMAGE-BASED _Disruption of Mail-in Ballots: Who are They? How to better show restriciton? _Voter ID Laws: Type isn’t working. Wasn’t a big fan of it honestly. _Ignoring Ballots: Colors are good! How to better show that ballots are gone? _White Vote is Stoping Black Vote: Show hands pushing more. Hierarchy. _Torn I Voted Sticker: Could be better : /
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Feb 01
Image Poster Studies Revised (5) IMAGE-BASED POSTERS STUDIES, BUT BETTER
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Project 01: Poster for Change/Social Justice
Back to the Drawing Board REVISION SKETCHES _Ideating images + metaphors that could relate to topic _Figuring out how to improve upon previous poster drafts _Focusing on Restriction + Destruction, as well as aesthetic choices
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(6) IMAGE-BASED _Made Voter Sticker more Visual Intersting _Highlighted Mail + Truck _Shreded paper + Refined Marks _(2) New: Restriction of Voting Rights + Ballot Maze _Hands Poster + Maze Concept are Strong
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Type Poster Studies (5) TYPE-BASED POSTERS STUDIES
Feb 03
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(5) TYPE-BASED _It’s Not Black & White: Successful with composition, smaller text don’t align with Statement text _Fight to Vote: Type Distortion is Interesting. Fighting? Boxing? _Protect our Vote: Make look less like button _Skull: it’s cool.
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Image + Type Poster Refinement (2-3) IMAGE + TYPE-BASED POSTERS REFINE
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(2) IMAGE-BASED _Elaborated on Hands, Different Styles _Played with Maze Concept: I like the concept, but hard to read without context
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(2) TYPE-BASED _Removed ‘not” _Played with the idea of Protection with Blocks of text _Moved Composition + Star Motif for better visibility _Boxing Poster Concept
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Editorial Illustration Sketches/Comp. (45) Editorial Illustration Sketches / Final Composition Studies
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Article: “Voter Suppresion must be a central issue”, NYT SUMMARY
QUOTES
Voter suppression and systemic racism has been a issue in the U.S. since the
“current efforts by Republicans across the country are a chilling omen as well as an eerie echo”
beginning. Without the ability to vote, minorities are vulnerable to the authori-
“It was done by intimidation and terror. It was also done by law and ordinance”
ties in power. People of Color have had major impact on swaying votes in past
“Voter suppression is about silencing, it is about weakening, it is about controlling though constriction”
election and categroizing it as a societal problem and using racist and classist
“We now have a poll tax once again, only it’s paid not in currency but in inconvenience. When people have
tacticts disenfranchises minorities and their communities.
to wait hours in line to vote, that, too, is a tax. The poll tax is a skin color tax, as Black people are more likely to have to wait” “They examine culture for patterns, like Black churches’ helping members to the polls on Sundays, and they restrict the conditions that make the patterns possible” “There has never been anything delicate or elegant about voter suppression. It is a club.”
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(45) EDITORIAL SKETCHES _Pulled Elements from the Artcle that could make interesting images _Reinterpretation of Symbols: Republican Elephant, “Take a Number” tickets, Founding Fathers, Hurdles, etc.
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(3) POSTER COMPOSITIONS _Hands are good. _Play with Hierarchy for clearer message _Add a secondary line to “Vote”, “Without Limits?” or “Freely?”
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Editorial Illustration Studies (5) EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION COMPOSITIONS
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(5) EDITORIAL ILLU. STUDIES _Hurdle + Elephants are Strongest _Play with Scale more for intimadating presence _Make Doors different _Highlight voting without taking away hurdle, stars look like Chicago
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Final Deliverables (2) IMAGE + TYPE POSTERS / EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION
Feb 17
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IMAGE POSTER
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TYPE POSTER
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EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION
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Thank You! I NEVER WANT TO SEE A HAND AGAIN.
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