Posters

Look for the Bloody Necessities

This design was inspired by a piece of art Banksy Designed called Napalm Girl with the aesthetic of using a Disney character, Mickey Mouse and Ronald Mc Donald, two friendly characters to try to create a combination of child-friendly imagery with a twisted and corrupted aesthetic, which is a design concept I wanted to experiment with. 

Napalm Girl (Banksy) 2005

This is the piece I was referring to from Banksy- which was a re-enacted piece based on a photo of a girl named Kim Phuc fleeing the Napalm attack in her village and again juxtaposed with the characters Ronald Mc Donald and Mickey Mouse, on either side of her holding her hands fleeing with her, to adding a sinister aesthetic to set a twisted tone by adding two child friendly faces of American Capitalism, due to his carefree front on American culture for its way of dropping bombs on people, promoting war and advertising acts of war.  

So, in a similar way, this poster design concept is based on the Disney cartoon character Balloo the bear, from The Jungle Book based on the song in the movie called The Bear the Necessities. This encouraged me to experiment with a bit of wordplay with the typography as I changed the word Bear to Bloody, so it was relevant to my campaign, I was trying to be a minor activist designs about period poverty being put to an end and the sanitary products become a necessity rather than the big luxury. 

Here is a link for the song, Bear Necessities below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NlhjpVFsU

Balloo the bear

With this design concept, I started off with this piece, where I drew Balloo the Bear from Jungle Book so I can create this piece.  I drew this design on Adobe Illustrator where I made a line drawing and then coloured in the design. 

 

I then started to create a design concept where I wanted to start basing my work with my campaign work as I wanted to experiment with this campaign further inspired by the Napalm piece that Banksy designed. With this design, I decided to add a pad and blood splats, which I created on Adobe Illustrator with type design too, in the similar aesthetic to the brand of the sanitary pads, playing with words where I am referencing a song from the Jungle Book as I wanted this imagery to be memorable so people can back up with what I am fighting for, which is to ban period poverty.  

This design concept I wanted to experiment with colour scheme, using an opposite colour background to my previous design to the design above, with the white background and instead I chose to use a blackened background and to use a full bodied image of Balloo with the top half of the body with a smaller type size with the "Look for the bloody necessities and written in white.

I then looked at this designs above further and thought about exploring negative space more with my imagery, after learning further about how I can create art with negative space and make it look cleaner and this time I did this doing sobs using an image of just Balloo's face along with a pad with blood stains and drips with the words "Look for the Bloody Necessities" and "Make sanitary products a necessity." so it can convey my message with a serious note but using a cartoon most people are familiar with so the imagery is memorable and easy to remember so the person seeing the design will remember the message I am trying to communicate visually. 

This design was going to be a billboard design as I thought it would work as a design concept, but unfortunately it didn't turn out as well as I would of liked this piece because I feel like I used the wrong typeface for this design now that I have looked at this design look enough I feel like this isn't the right typeface for this aesthetic I feel its not as legible and I feel that it needs to be a much simpler typeface so it works better with the simplistic aesthetic of the design concept. 

I then decided to move on this design concept completely with how I am creating this concept, using a lot more negative space and changing the typeface to better suit 

this imagery.

With this design concept as I say I went down a different route with how I designed this piece, using and exploring more experimentation with negative space as this design concept I wanted to try making a Billboard design.  I wanted this design to be simplistic and to the point with simplistic explanation in the visual elements of the communication so you can tell what I am trying to explain and say but in a simple manner, this was an experiment that I think works a bit better than the imagery above this design for its simplistic aesthetic, that it looks cleaner and I like how the imagery contains more negative space, the only thing I feel needs adding is perhaps a couple of blood drops to represent the period poverty a bit more as it could still mean the song but a more PG variation because of the word Bloody being contained in

the imagery.

Then with this design I experimented further with the position of Balloo the bear so you can only see his eyes as if he's searching for his necessities, I did this to experiment further with the design concept of this Billboard, I like this look better for as I say it looks as though he's searching for something, in this case he's searching the necessities as he's surrounded by the luxuries.

Finally, this design I developed further by adding a couple of blood drops on the design, to make it a little more accurate to the campaign I am fighting for seeing as it is about period poverty, I figured it makes more sense to add some blood seeing as it relates more to the fact I am fighting for Period poverty and for sanitary products being an essential item as apposed to a luxury item. I liked this design so much I was hoping to get it printed as a billboard design for my campaign.

I feel like the target audience for this design can't be for children, because this design would ruin children's childhoods and because of period poverty children wouldn't of heard of periods, I hadn't heard of it till I was 12/13 and so they wouldn't of known about it unless they come on earlier in their lives, some can come on at the age of 8, which was something I learnt about from reading facts about it in articles online and in science lessons but because of it having the word "bloody" I did it as a sense of clever word play because it does work if you knew what I was trying to communicate, but I would say the target audience for this design concept would have to be people in their teens and early adulthood.

Billboard Design

Billboard Design

Free all sanitary products everywhere

This design is based on Scotland freeing Sanitary products for all women, which is something all countries I feel is something that should be a mandatory thing, not only because I am a female myself, but if you look back at the statistics I found out from my research and that the cost for sanitary products is insane It made me think that actually they should be free everywhere. Not just Scotland! It is brilliant that Scotland has made this action recently and I feel this is something that all countries across the world should follow, especially due to the COVD 19 struggles there are many people out of employment due to lockdown and those women won't be able to afford sanitary products so I feel this action made by Scotland should happen everywhere. As this was a brilliant announcement made in 25th November 2020. I wanted this to reach people outside the toilet cubicles but its ridiculous that you have to pay £1 for a sanitary product usage in the toilets and this is something else I wanted to mention.

Banner Design based on Scotland Freeing Sanitary Products

I was trying to promote Scotland freeing sanitary products by making it happen across the world as many women are in poverty and cannot afford these essentials which shouldn't be a luxury item. 

Experimental Typography (Logos/Sticker designs)

 Experimental Typography 

 (Logos/Sticker designs)

With this page, I made a couple of typographic designs for the words Period Poverty for a start because of that was the topic I am looking at for this campaign. I wanted to experiment with the words and see what I could create, I wanted to see if I could perhaps play with the lettering for Period Poverty. This was inspired by seeing logos with hidden objects within their logos, such as the bear in the mountain for Toblerone, the arrow within the E and the X for Fedex they somehow mad this work and experimented with Negative space in the wording which I think is a clever idea. 

Well done to the inventor of the Fedex Logo. Along with The Tour de France logo being a person on a sports bike, spelling out the word Tour... which I think is such a clever idea. These logos and clever techinques are beginning to make me think on how I can experiment further with lettering myself and these logos below and listed are just a few examples below.

  

Logos with hidden images and clever uses of negative space.

Not only is that an inspiration to experiment further with typography but looking back at the book words that move, this is where a lot of my inspiration for experimenting abit more with typography came in too, which was a short book of clever antics on experimenting with type here are some example of this typographic concept I am talking about below:

             

 Watching Words Move Book examples by (Ivan Chermayeff)

These are very clever and will make you smile when you get how this genius has played with type and experimented with different words, making them do things, replace letters with a glyph thats appropriate towards the word. 

Here's some examples of ones I made last year out of a typeface I made below:

This here is my inspiration to experiment more with typography and experiment with words and this is what I have done below with the word Period Poverty.

This experiment I created with the text I wanted the colours to be like the period pads colours to kind of make the message of ending period poverty strong and to the point and to make people look and think ohhh there might be a hidden message within this, wonder what it could be and spend a couple minutes to study the design. 

Period Poverty

I then began to experiment more as I created designs were inspired by what I have learnt and how I can experiment with words, because of this being about Period Poverty I decided to replace the I in period with a tampon and the O's with the female symbol. These designs I was hoping for these to be stickers designs, but unfortunately my printer was playing up and I didn't get time to print any stickers sadly, therefore I couldn't create stickers at the time.

With the rest of these designs I basically went along with the same concept with the designs above apart from adding some extra words and blood splats to add some dynamic and dramatic effects. I do hope at least that if I can't use these designs for stickers that I can at least use these in my poster designs. For this concept the reason the chosen typeface for most of my designs, particularly in design 3 is because that typeface reminds me of the always logo on the sanitary products packaging design.  That is why I went for this look, in fairness I had some feedback stating that what Anne said sometimes this typeface isn't right foe some of the posters and suggest on try looking at more contemporary typefaces and experiment more on that agenda, unfortunately due to bad time management with the written aspects of this project and annotations I don't think I have enough time to experiment and have a rethink on type designs otherwise I'd get too into it and make more and more work for myself when I could be finished with that aspect, I will learn from this feedback in my next project.  As for target audience, again I cannot imagine these designs being suited for children, partly because the designs are too graphic for children and I don't want to frighten them with things like periods and period poverty.  I want children to enjoy their childhood. 

                       

Petition

Petition

This entry is about a petition I made to try and fight for my campaign about "Free Sanitary Products in Sex Clinics, Schools & Workplaces & to the Homeless. Ban Poverty." as I wanted to try and do something about my campaign and stand for my beliefs and try and fight for a luxury that should be an essential. 

This is my petition to Free Sanitary Products in Sex Clinics, Schools & Workplaces & to the Homeless. Ban Poverty.

I tried making this petition on change.org, where all the petitions can be made to change something and fight for a campaign and hope for people to support what you're fighting for. if you want to sign here is the link to do so: 

If you struggle to read what this says, it says:

"I feel sanitary products isn't an issue raised enough, women have the rights to be healthy, just as much as the next man or woman, whether you're rich or poor.   I just feel that having sanitary products is a human right.  They should be free of charge for the homeless, to make sure they have the equal right for good health.  

I also feel the same for these products being free in the toilets in places of education and workplaces as not everyone is able to afford a tampon or a pad and some may forget one; one day and flood their clothes. Causing embarrassment and anxieties worrying about being a laughed at and ridiculed   in-front of their friends and colleagues.  These products should also be free in the Sex clinics because at the end of the day Condoms are free in Sex Clinics, so why aren't Pads and Tampons.

I just feel Sanitary products should be an essential not a luxury and should be free in schools, workplaces, sex clinics and free for the homeless. Please Help make this change today!"

Comments on the commission by myself and a close friend of mine Sanjita.

This comment from my friend above is brilliantly backed up my point I have been fighting for throughout this campaign!

Along side that, I had an opinion about period poverty from a year 2 fine art student I know below:

“I've been trying to do stuff for this for years. Period products to the government are classed as a luxury as jaffacakes are classed as a necessity. The government have slightly decreased tax of period products but not really enough. Some sanitary company's do do alot to help school. Did you know in Africa they do have sanitary products. Also sanitary products hold loads and loads of chemicals that can be damaging to our bodies. Why I started going for more eco friendly choices. Its scary that our periods are classed as a luxury. I'm a hugeee feminist so I'm fighting for things like this all the time and also I was brought up in a very low income disadvantage area so things like this was happening all the time. Lots of girls had to just wrap toilet roll round their undies because they couldn't afford period products.”

Petition Results

This is how my petition went, unfortunately I didn't get as many supporters as 100 supporters which was the final goal on the website but I am glad I gave this a go as I tried my best to fight to ban period poverty despite not getting overly many supporters I am still glad I gave it a shot as I never know what happens if I didn't give it a try 

and it shows I am fighting for something I have a passion for and to what I feel strongly about. 

Infographics Poster/Billboard designs

Infographics Poster/Billboard designs

After learning about info graphics earlier into this project with the newspaper part of the project I found out a lot of statistics about period poverty in my research, looking at the websites I have listed on an earlier page,  these statistics were honestly a terrifying thought and I wanted to dress this in my campaign because these shocking statistics might help the world and society change their ways of what they see is a luxury and what is an essential. 

Here are my designs below:

This statistic is very shocking, that a woman in the UK would spend this much just on going through her periods on a monthly basis, I don't see why an essential should be as expensive as this one, I didn't print this design out because I found a typo in this design, where I should of wrote it as "An average woman would spend:" then have the big text in red and then have "on periods in her life time" put below the text in red but  have that text right aligned. With the words "Stop period poverty" at the bottom of the page, therefore because I didn't do that I didn't want to print this design. I could have changed this but I realised a few days after I designed this piece. 

This statistic is terrifying. That so many woman are homeless after seeing and learning about the statistic above if women are paying that sort of money for sanitary products then no wonder this amount of women are homeless, this is why period poverty needs to end and this Is why I have designed this piece. I wanted to try and find convince my audiences which in this case is aimed for anyone who thinks tampons and pads are luxury items to try and change their point of view. 

Studio day 4

Studio day 4 

The pitching ideas

Oh today studio day consisted of basically speaking out my idea for my campaign and pitching for everyone in the studio which I didn't know I had to create a PowerPoint for unfortunately but despite not knowing that I had to create a PowerPoint or draw anything this is quite sudden and I had a bit of a general idea on what I was basing my topic on what I wanted to speak about and I think I did okay considering that factor.  I wanted to write about this experience because it was quite a big thing for me because my confidence is here has been up-and-down and all over the place but it's not been brilliant and basically no one in this year at the time was going to picture idea unfortunately and they didn't have the courage to stand up and speak and so I felt quite bad that nobody would volunteer themselves so I said "I haven't got a solid idea as such but I've got something that I could perhaps mention" and I said go for it to me and she got everyone to pay a bit of an attention to what I was saying and Anne said  "Saff's got one" and so I started off saying the following:

"My topic for my campaign into two choices out of mental health of poverty and I thought to myself that everyone is going to pick mental health and a lot of people will speak about it and therefore as much as it interests me as a psychological thing it's not something I would necessarily choose to base a project about as I know it will be a popular one and I want didn't want to frighten the sheep I wanted to find my own path and talk about something different and something I've never done before so I thought about going for poverty. And for that I wanted to talk about period poverty because I want to take a period property awareness further than just on the toilet cubicles and I wanted to be able to do something about this matter as a whole because women a lot of women go through periods and it's not an easy ride to go through and the fact is with the poverty side it can be much harder, it's something I feel needs addressing as at the end of day condoms are free in sex clinic send it why can't sanitary products are women be free on sex clinics in workplaces and places of education they just don't understand it really understand like supermarkets need to make the money on things but I don't get is why these for us need to cause so much and cause so many women to struggle"

I somehow Managed to speak out within about 10/15 minutes in front of my peers doing that was completely out of my comfort zone because it was a strong subject matter that I've only just started learning about by looking at such with looking at the statistics and facts and realising period property is a thing that needs to come out of the toilet cubicle and I thought it's a very different thing to what I normally do you are on and I wanted to learn and create different work to my normality and has actually speak about period poverty is quite a big thing for me because it's fairly new to me and I thought I'd get embarrassed because of it being a woman thing and it being something women go though and as a woman myself I thought it may embarrass me, because it's a natural thing and it made me question why am I talking about that sort of thing for, that isn't like me and that again is exactly why I chose to do this. 

Said to me to stick with this idea and that is a good project brief to go along with which was something I didn't expect to hear because I thought after thinking about this subject matter for a few weeks I thought I didn't think people like this idea because of it being quite different and quite strong of a subject for women I didn't think this would be such a likeable subject matter but I was even wrong about that so it was interesting to hear and I'm glad that this idea could work.

Here is my feedback below:

Poster designs

Poster Designs

For this post I have created and experimented on a couple more designs for posters for my campaign, I wanted to experiment with other languages as period poverty is a globalised situation that many women unfortunately have to go through 1 in 10 people... that is terrifying!! The subliminal message I wanted to try and get across at this concept is to Stop Period Poverty. I thought quite deeply about then target audience for this piece and for these designs I made the target audiences quite varied but I have deiced to base it towards those who speak in a different language and from a different culture seeing as this issue is happening across the world I wanted to create some designs where I somehow involve other counties and write in their language and create imagery that swill be memorable but also very controversial because the tourist attractions can be known as "She" and this was a concept I really wanted to explore.

Here are some designs conveying this below:

3 Toureist attractions out of tampons and pads

These posters are saying stop period poverty in 3 different languages, French with Effle Tower, made from tampons, Italian with the Leaning tower of Pisa made of pads and tampons and finally England/London, with the London Eye made from Pads and Tampons, these images are very graphic but I wanted to experiment based of an idea me and See came up with which was to make tourist attractions out of tampons Lucky for me I studied Leisure and Tourism to still remember some of the Tourist attractions across the world.  

With this work I looked on google translate for the translations form the words Stop, Period and Poverty and then designed the imagery out of pads, tampons and droplets of blood, in the aesthetics of red, black, grey and white to keep the aesthetic consistent for this series of posters, this was an intentional slide. 

French: Effle Tower

Italian: Tower of Pisa

       

English: London Eye

Billboard designs

For these designs I wanted to try using a different software to Adobe Illustrator and wanted to experiment with Adobe Dimensions as I learnt how to use this software in the duration of the summer I taught myself the basics on how to make sign imagery and add some graphic detail to them and these were basically experiments where it went better than I expected it to of gone.

Experiment 1/2

With this design I wanted to write end period poverty, I wanted to experiment further by adding the always designs I created earlier in this segment of the project to see what happens, I thought it was a good idea a the time but now I think about it I am not overly keen on this design. I don't think the images inside the text is needed. I like happy accidents but I felt that this one was not a happy accident.  

Experiment 2/2

With this design, this was the one. I think this design works much better than the one above, because its simplistic, it is easier to read, there isn't any images distracting the person looking at the imagery and most importantly the blood stains in the background look more like blood stain. This design just works much better, it looks cleaner and has a more sophisticated aesthetic for what I am trying to communicate visually. 

With these designs, I feel the target audience for these designs is anyone over the age of 12, I wanted to address all audiences after that age from man and woman and I wanted this design concept to be aimed towards all people to try and turn people's opinions round and try and convince my audiences in this case is all places of community to agree with my point and try and do something about it. 

Billboard Designs

 Billboard Designs

This design idea came about by the idea of the Tampon Tax and period poverty, I wanted to add some sarcasm and a bit of wordplay with this design concept for one to experiment and two to see what I can create for a Bill Board Design.

Design Test 1

I experimented adding a cross in this variation as I wanted to show I am fighting to banish Period Poverty.  I liked the concept it sounded better in my head than perhaps on the design. 

So I had a rethink on the design of this Billboard.

Design Test 2

This design I experimented with I tried getting rid of the cross, which I felt worked better, and instead add a tampon to the design because it is known as a tampon tax but I didn't feel the illustration. of the tampon was strong enough for my liking of this design. 

Design 3

With this design I think It looks much cleaner and much better, I like the negative space in this designed how this image is graphically illustrated, I think the arrow I made with the sarcastic "Don't need Luxuries" works very well pointing at the woman without a sanitary product. I wanted to do this to make people stop and think what the message is behind this design. The only slight bother with this piece is the text is too close to the blood stain, I felt it needed a slight push over to the right so there's some space between the blood splat and the D for the don't. 

This here is the final design for this Billboard design, it is simplistic, it has some humour and sarcasm in it, it conveys a message about period poverty, to try and end tampon tax and most importantly end any form of period poverty. This piece works much better, where the text is looks much cleaner with the imagery and for me this piece works well. If I had to pick a target audience for this piece, I would probably suggest the government, men and people working in sex clinics etc.  For the targeting audience for this piece, the age group I would say for these designs is best for teens and adults from their 30's to 40's, due to the dry and sarcastic humour with a deep messages in these designs, I can't see people over 50 showing as much attention as they go through the change of not having a period anymore but at the end of the day you just never know. They may still feel strongly for women in poverty for sanitary products and for the homeless women in the streets who may not have the money for them.

Gemma Corelle

 Gemma Corelle

Gemma Corelle, is a feminis, cartoonist and pug lover from the UK and she is well known cartoon art looking at everyday issues, problems and trends in society and turn them into cartoons, most of which are based on feminist issues, similarly to what I am basing my work on. 

Some of which is a form of mockery and Micky take and some of which is motivational and encouraging. I have looked at her work before back in FE (foundation) but at the time she didn't do much for me as an artist, but now I have studied her work more, she is an artist I have come to like and found inspiring, her work is cartoon like which is imagery I tend to create, what I like about her work is the simplicity of it and how it is so relatable when you really study it. 

Here is some examples of her work below,  based on topics I am looking at for social cultural context, I think they're brilliant.   

 

Gemma Corelle's Super Tampon

Now I wish I saw this sooner in my research, as this is brilliant! Super Tampon, this is ingenious I love the simplicity and the humour in this design, it is quirky and works very well. If I saw this sooner I probably would of created something similar to this. 

With this design Corelle has created,  I think it is also quite clever, I like how she's mapped the menstral cycle, explaining how women go through it, it works well with educating children but it also draws humour to the adult audiences and this is something I hope to portray in my work as well as to cover a strong subject matter for my campaign. 

This had nothing to do with period poverty or anything we are looking at in the slightest but I thought this was brilliant and made me giggle, so I wanted to add this as I want to be able to try and make people giggle with my work, considering the fact I wanted to look at Baloo the Bear about the Bear Necessities and making some wordplay on that, I feel that looking at this piece for inspirational wordplay is a valid reason for this design Corelle has created to be part of this entry, maybe I could be the next Gemma Corelle!

She has even done art based on COVID 19

These designs are brilliant, I think they work well, they're very simplistic and again I wish I saw these designs sooner as I could of tried experimenting like Corelle has done for this concept for my newspaper too but to perhaps make my own sticks and "rewards" chart. I like how accurate this is, when I saw this it in fact made me smile. 

Now this design by Gemma Corelle is brilliant! if I was creating work for the mental health campaign or for a section in the Newspaper I again wish I saw her imagery sooner as this is brilliant, I could of created something similar to this maybe do mood gloves or something like that, but it works tremendously, this is a concept I would like to try and follow more in the future.