Week 18 – Applying philosophy to design

Design an A4 poster for a humanitarian cause you feel passionate about. For example, creating awareness and a call for action against human trafficking. You must apply pastiche to your design. Use a style of propaganda used during the Modernism era and create your own, unique design in a contemporary context.

• Start by creating at least 5 thumbnails for your design. These thumbnails should be handed in with your assignment.
• Write a rationale or explanation for your poster of at least 350 words. Why it is necessary to create awareness of the humanitarian cause?
• Give an explanation for your creative execution, mention the use of colour and graphics as well as typography.
• Give examples of the designs you used as inspiration and why it is applicable to your design.
• Hand in your designs as PDF documents. You may use any medium for this. Hand in PDFs of your rationale and thumbnails as well.

I choose to make a poster to create awareness of a cause that I care about, the abortion of children because of Downs syndrome etc. The poster is a pastiche of this poster by Dimitri Moor.

You can se the result and my rationale by clicking on the link under.

Poster and rationale (pdf)