Final Poster and Logo

Project 2

Project two is now done and done.

For my issue, I decided to go with something that I felt very strongly about. The issue that I addressed was one that involves the city of Vancouver attempting to pass new legislation that would allow police officers the right to enter any location at anytime during the Olympics with giving only 24 hours notice. The aims of the legislation is to give the police the ability to remove displays from public view that are deemed “inappropriate”. What is considered to be inappropriate remains illusive, but I feel this is besides the point.

The real issue here is that Vancouver is moving in a direction that no civilized, first world, democratic country should even think of going. Why should police temporarily be given this increased authority? If we accept that this is ok, what will be next? Will we even recognize our currently familiar city or country if this continues?

It is important that we don’t allow something like this to take place. It really has no place in our city and is extremely unfair to everyone.

Anyway, here are several iterations of my poster design. I wanted to keep things abstract and mostly simple, relying on the relationship of the objects on the page as opposed to manipulated images. It was also important for me to keep a certain distance away from the subject matter. An issue I have with a lot of posters is that they employ a much to commanding visual language. They become didactic and this, at least for me, tends to repel the viewer as they want to engage in the image and have a part and say in it as opposed to being ordered into listening or obeying.

I hope you enjoy my posters. I will upload the final poster after the “big reveal” tomorrow!

Poster V.1

Poster V.2

Here are a couple photos of where I would imagine my poster being place. They were taken nearby the art gallery where the Olympic countdown clock is. However I believe that my posters could really be placed anywhere in the city. They aren’t that site specific.