Level: Junior and Senior Elective Faculty: Chaz Maviyane-Davies
Duration of Project: Two Weeks The world is in precarious shape
and what we manage to do to each other, even worse. "Human
Rights, Human Wrongs" is an extremely broad-based theme that
allows students to choose and interpret a social issue. Students
will voice their opinions on their chosen issue by creating a
visual, conceptual statement for a general audience, using the
integration and/or juxtaposition of type and image, possibly in
a new or unexpected way. The poster should aim to heighten
public awareness of their topic and make viewers question their
own beliefs and lifestyles. How does the effective poster
achieve its aim? Remember, by its very nature, the poster has
can seize the immediate attention of the viewer, and then retain
it for what is usually a brief but intense period. During that
span of attention, it can provoke and motivate its audience. It
can make the viewer gasp, laugh, reflect, question, assent,
protest, recoil, or otherwi