Propaganda Poster: Stop the Abuse

For a class assignment, I was required to create a poster using techniques of propaganda. I chose to use something as in your face as possible. Stop animal abuse.

When I was in elementary school, I remember the red white and black color scheme used by the D.A.R.E program. It works to get across something stark and bloody, and that's what I wanted. It wasn't easy. It isn't pretty. Animal abuse is about as ugly as it gets. Check out the link to the Humane Society of America.

A little bit of Do, A little bit of Not, A little bit of Resuscitate

In this picture, I have attempted to create a triptych, a series of geometric shapes, in order to convey something or nothing. 

I started with three simple letters. D N R. Do Not Resuscitate. They also happen to be my initials. 

The first box started with a lowercase helvetica font d. D for Do. I wanted to convey the action of the word, so I  used primary colors red, blue, and yellow. Playing around with the shape and adding arrows for the borders help to enhance the sensation of action.

The second box was a lowercase helvetica font n. N for Not. Not is a compare and contrast word, stark in its heavy handed rebuttal. So I stuck to the strongest of contrasts: black and white. Instead of having a black letter in a white background, I switched the colors around. Than I just made the corners a little sharper to add emphasis to the spiky aspect of No.

The last box started with an uppercase helvetica font R. I wanted to make it look a tree, but I couldn't make the line turn out quite right. So I played around with the borders and the fill of the letter. I wire brushed the borders of the form to make it look more organic.