This was my final poster for the UN Poster for Peace 2016 competition and I was really happy with it because I had spent a lot of time on it. HOWEVER, when I went to see posters that other people had created for their last poster brief, as I had just seen the link on their website, I noticed that NONE of them had text on them. At all. Therefore I felt like I had taken the brief in the wrong way.
These are some of the posters that they have posted on their website. In some ways I can really see where I thought that the poster needed to be educational, as the briefs as to inform and educate people, which I automatically associated with words, however this isn't necessarily true. I did wonder that if they wanted information on their poster, they probably would have provided text for you to put on there, so perhaps all the time I spent looking for facts was pointless.
Because I felt like I didn't meet the brief requirements, I went ahead and (sort of) remade my poster. I kept the illustrations that I did, but instead ordered them around so that they almost emulated the nuclear symbol. I also added the UN logo with low opacity in the back for added texture. And I am quite happy with my illustrations as they each tell a story and provide information of the effects of nuclear weapons.
This was a lesson taught by myself, to actually look at past brief examples to see what the company is looking for. Though on their website it doesn't necessarily say that you can't put text on there, I think that they were looking for a visual representation, rather than a load of text that I had gone and found from online.
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