Social Conscience

after looking around on the internet for different ideas to do my project on i decided to choose war but incorporate peace and poverty into my design also.

My first costcard size design was about poverty, its called 'War on Poverty'. Firstly i found three photo's on the internet of children who look like they come from a poverty or poor background, I also found an image of a poloroid photo and joined the images together to create a collage of typical photos of children you would see on a world vision add. i then found a background of a middle eastern setting which can be linked to both poverty countries and also countries at war. Then i used the lasoo tool to cut out a tank and i added that onto the opposite side of the other images i put into my design earlier. already i was beginning to get a ncie contrast of war and poverty. On a 'Make poverty history' compaign i found i got the idea to use a quote by president Eisenhower about how war is not the most important thing in the world and we should really be using our money and resourses for feeding these children and actually making poverty history. Here is the full quote;

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

I then finished my design with the title in the top left corner 'WAR ON POVERTY' The text i used remindes me of war, and it hought it would fit in well with what i am trying to say.

My target audience for this piece is everybody. I believe it is a clear message that needs to get accros to everybody.

My second idea came to me when i first saw this image of children with guns, and i thought to myself...this isnt right. Children should not be brought up with war like this. I used 'war' here to get a message of peace across to my audience which also happens to be everyone. This simple poster could be used as a protest sign and anti-war campaigns. I used simple colors red, black and white that stand out very well with one another.