Posters/Billboards

Posters/Billboards

For this entry consist on poster designs that I feel work well as posters, where I chose to work with a different technique, exploring the colour scheme of red, white and black, I chose to experiment on ways I can try to convince my audiences to change their views about sanitary products for women. Again I want to try and take this issue outside the the toilet cubicles and on billboards in public places to create awareness for this issue and to try and make a difference in a communal way, I have made various design concepts and experiments below.

"We don't need Luxuries, What a bloody Luxury!"

For this design concept, I chose to keep this piece simple and to the point I wanted to add some imperatives (Bossy Verbs) such as using the words "Make" and "Don't" the reason I directed this piece to the 3rd person is because its a communal issue and I wanted to target everybody as this is an issue that needs taking out of the toilet cubicles and out to the world so everyone is aware of this issue. I wanted to say "We don't need luxuries" to be sarcastic as they being the governmency tend to see sanitary products as precisely Luxury items and they shouldn't be, I then wrote and centralised "What a bloody luxury!" to show it is what people unfortunately label sanitary products. The inspiration for the words what a bloody luxury is from Catherine Tate series (The Grandma sketches) where she says "What a f*ckin liberty!" and wanted to make some word play with that concept as I wanted to make a pastiche on that and add a bit of humour to my design concepts as well as to address a serious issue with the caption of my points I am trying to make saying "Make ALL sanitary products FREE in schools.

Here is the clip I am referring to about where my "What a Bloody Luxury came to this poster design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytY9_xy7qgY.  (Apologies for the swearing there too) 

 "What a bloody Luxury, We don't need Luxuries!"

With this piece, I went for a completely different aesthetic to the billboard design above, but it says the exact same wording as the wording above, just positioned differently as I decided to add an illustration of the lower half of a stereotypical silhouette design of a women with a blood stain around the uteru/vagina area is to show the woman is bleeding through their clothes because they're going through period poverty and walking around the streets bloody to show that they aren't luxuries and need to be an essential item and should be free of charge, basically Period Poverty needs to end.

ME NO ||

You would of heard me speaking about this design already but this design is one I wanted to recap on as this design Me No || is a piece to add some slapstick humour into the piece of work which was inspired by the book called watching words move, which is what I have said before as I mentioned about my wordplay I wanted to use this because I wanted to say about women when they go through a period it is constant there is no pause as there are so many across the world a woman is bleeding everyday, even though it is (a week in a month) they don't all bleed on that same week! and I feel all women should by law and have the right to have sanitary products and I wanted to show this by saying the word menopause but instead to write the word as ME NO || to liberate this and I wrote the caption underneath Me Keep bleeding for the same reason as I have just mentioned, I would say the target audience for this piece is aimed towards all audiences anything to push this problem of period poverty away from toilet cubicles and to make it a message everyone needs to be aware of and therefore needs to put a stop on period poverty across the world. I wanted to keep this design simple and strictly to the point to get the message across to people so people will look and so they don't have to read too much or get any distractions and so people who are rushing about will be able to read it within seconds and I only wanted to add some text and blood stains to this piece for that reason.

These next designs are based on a developed version of the TamTax wordplay 

(When I made the designs about TamTax the first time but further developed and more to 

my liking) Here are the designs below. 

TamTax TamTax Galore...

With this piece I used the words "What a bloody Luxury!" again but for a different poster design and completely different aesthetic for this design and for the other designs below I wanted to make a typographic posters as I made a lot of posters that contains multiple of illustrations and after looking at artists like Bob and Roberta Smith, who works with typography a lot in his imagery I figured I take some inspiration from that and give that technique a shot myself as I think sometimes seeing words written very simply can make your point seem stronger and easier to understand, and to make this design a bit more exciting than just text I decided on either side to add some blood drips pouring down the page to add some impact to the design, but in a simplistic manner and so it isn't such a distraction for people reading the poster to elevate any feeling of intimidation so people won't get put off from reading the text 

I wrote the word Galore on there to add to the sarcasm and dry humour on this design concept..

TamTax TamTax Today...

Again with this design, it is another typographic poster, in the same aesthetic and genre as the design above to keep the design dominantly typographic with blood drips on either side and replacing the words What a bloody Luxury to the words "Say Goodbye to" still keeping the words TamTax text in there and changing the word "Galore" to the word "today".

TamTax Tabboo

With this design, was the best one out of the three designs in this aesthetic, because the word TamTax doesn't repeat itself and what is good about this design isn the fact the text centralised in the black, is written in the 3 T's and good use of a catchy slogan and a good use of alliteration which I felt works much better in terms of something to read and for it to have a striking aesthetic for it's audience and it doesn't seem as repetitive, I think it reads cleaner also. 

This design is aimed for all audiences, to try and fight to end Period Poverty.  I liked this design best out of the three and hoping to get this design printed and try using to advertise my campaign.