I wanted to do these with a propaganda theme, or political theme towards some of the issues that have been going on in our country lately. I used curves in this one a little more to get different effects on layers for contrast between the colors that were similar. I stuck very closely with the limited pallet idea because i wanted them to be clear, simple and clean to portray the message in both not only with the words chosen but also with the images.
The main points in both are definitely centered in text, and while that isn't always necessarily the best way to go about it i wanted the one word in both to be the grabbing text that then lead your eye to the rest of the poster to visually interpret the message.
I created them both with the idea of making people think about the key issues that are being addressed in both. The looming creature signifying the greed and obscene wealth of corporate America's capitalistic world, versus the shadowed figures of everyone else just trying to survive. I thought about going further with wording in "Capitalism" but felt that it would have actually taken away from the poster, not have added to it.
For the other propaganda, FAIL, i chose this word as it is a rather famous word used all over the Internet these days. It has taken on it's own pop cultural icon and is simplistic enough to convey the point i was trying to make about the problems in our government today because of all the bickering being done between the main parties rather than focusing on the large issues and working together to help this country.
I do think that i misunderstood the assignment at some point, because i thought we were allowed to chose both of these to be any we wanted such as music, propaganda, or movie. I had already put a lot of time into them both and was not able to work on another at the point where I noticed that it says two out of the three themes. Either way, it was challenging in several spots and also a passionate project for me because of the subject matter i used.
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