7-1 Social Justice Poster Research

 

Reflection: 

I found this poster to be most intriguing because it combines the vibrant colors and contrasting colors of yellow and red. Lupton adds this poster to indicate that humans are bound to make eye contact no matter what the issue is, that it’s one way of grasping the viewers attention. I feel I would like to play with human features that can push forward a sense of familiarity and make a person think twice of what they’re looking at. This poster also sparked the idea of combining the thought of eyes, and show depth into more than just eyes. Human body language says a lot for some, more than what words can explain. 

Reflection: 

I found this poster so creative with the fact they used the sphere of Earth to resemble a human head that you would mentally think that it’s the side of a human head with a ear listening where the phone is. It was creative to share the message of interconnectedness that the phone can bring worldwide. I would relate this to my own poster as it can be to specify that solitary confinement is in fact a global problem and isn’t something that’s temporary. I also found the typography to be really nicely matched with the textures of the graphics and the colors are subtle but bring enough vibrancy to the message. They seem to be positive colors. 

Reflection: 

The texture of the typography was creative and unique that it can be built together to form letters. I had seen the aluminum ballon letters that plays with lighting and the contrast with black and white. The whole idea of this poster was solely to make it hard to see what you’re looking at. I found that it was smart to take one texture, and sort of use it like a base to form other things that make the brain to see the visual. I also liked the way Lupton used this to show how psychedelic 80’s posters influenced the way artists were now making posters that were hard to see.

Reflection: 

If I were to use one element, it’s to use this shape-like white space that can bring this light into a poster. Lupton showed examples of what it means to use a center point and how adding a circle brings together a design easily. It marks where text alignment begins and it ends. I like the way that this artist took the concept of the circle as a center point of light that brings more attention to the background than the circle of white space. I like the way the letters are curved to 

Reflection: 

I found this poster to be very interesting and can influence the poster I’ll be creating for my social justice project because it pushes the meaning of food and I like the second meaning that psychologically we tend to develop when we know what era the poster was created in. I want to push that empathy for humanity in my poster that can get the viewer to really think twice about what solitary confinement really feels like.