Poster Design: Save, Prevent, Kill ...

Attached above is my poster for this assignment. I have decided to do a poster to save the environment since global environment protection is in popularity now. For my design i tried to portray an image that the future of the earth and environmental preservation is entirely controlled in our hands by us.

The hand cuddling the small "bonsai" shows my main message, that just how we will cuddle a fragile baby and take care of it, we show "cuddle" the young plant, and preserve the future of our environment. Also it acts as a separation between the beautiful earth on the top in contrast to the destroyed earth at the bottom. I used the caption "SAVE our earth" because i think we should take ownership of our future and place of survival.

I also added a short phrase: "The earth is dying, you and I are murderers. The earth we abuse and the living things we kill, will in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. Because we dont think about future generations, they will never forget us". Quite a straight forward quote to depict the consequences of our actions to the future generations.

Comments:
Some of my classmates pointed out that the font of the phrase is too clustered and that red is not a good option for the colour as it is not very visible. other than that nothing was said. The tutor however pointed out that we cannot use internet images, thus i think i had to remove the earth and the deforested picture below. =( No choice, so i had to make modifications to my poster. Also she pointed out that the caption spreaded abit too wide to the edge and probably too big, and suggested that maybe i could enlarge the "SAVE" and move it above the "our earth" for a try to see the effect. Overall, she said the idea of the hand was not too bad. =)