27.02 Week Two / Session One

Collecting and Analysing Poster Design 

I think this poster is really effective in it's use of pathos, and I think I should consider this more in my poster designs. 

The sketchy charcoal/ crayon texture and the way it has been scribbled and smudged makes it look like the person who wrote is was angry and frustrated, and this makes the viewer feel this too, which I think is successful wehi. It is not intended to appear sophisticated or proper, because that's not what they believe racism to be. The black and the bright red are also angry, violent, negative colours. The letter 'C' becoming teeth also makes it appear dangerous and vicious, capable of harm. It makes the viewer want to flinch away. 

I found this poster particularly interesting because as soon as I saw it I could almost hear the whistle blowing sharply, and I thought it was really clever that a poster could convey a sound using only two shapes. I think what made it so effective was the way that the red, and especially the white colours popped out of the black background. They helped to make the sound appear sharp and sudden. Also, the exclamation point carries with it the loud staccato sound that usually comes at the end of an exclamation, The way they have been positioned also, with the exclamation mark almost jumping out of the whistle shows the viewer that the noise is coming from the whistle. It seems authoritative and commands attention. 

The main reason I liked this poster was because of the way that it conveyed the idea of movement. By having the solid hands and then the outline hands, the viewer puts them together to imagine the hands rubbing together quickly to ignite the flame. Because of this, you can also tell that the pencil is scratching into the surface and causing a flame to grow. This works well at showing the designers message, which is that posters can ignite change.

This poster works well at creating tension with the placement of the words, which are clamping the person together and squeezing in from the sides. They may appear to be leaving the page if it were not for the persons scrunched up face and hands pushing from either side, which help to create the entire sensation of being squashed in from the outside.