• 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.

I chose and made a propaganda poster about mental health. This is a topic that can never be talked about enough. It can never be too much information about seeking help if you need it. Seeing people suffering from some mental illness and that they dont get any help is hard for someone you love. Today there has been more and more usual to admit that you are suffering with some kind of mental illness. But there is still a long way to go, to reach out to everyone who needs it. I chose to make a poster with a red background field, hence that for me red reflects soreness and damage. I chose to make a person who has a devil on his shoulder, who reflects on it and has bad faith in himself and listens to the stupid voices in your head. I chose a font without serif, to bring out the clarity of the words. I chose white writing on a red background, both for contrast but also that white is a pure color. It reflects that you can have a clean, healthy mental health. On a white background I made yellow / orange writing, which reflects joy and care.

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