Put in groups we were given the chance to produce an A3 poster visually representing democracy. My group and I were stuck for an idea to begin with but discussing our recent approaches with information on War on want we decided to investigate in the issues and problems with young sweatshop workers in Honduras. We split in groups of two, Emma and I were on a mission to come up with a tag line and a possible layout whilst the others looked up upon facts and vital content for our poster. We all agreed to take the simple route by keeping the poster visually easy to understand. Working in the groups I found that as a team all our input was creating more developed outcomes. After we had split we all met up again to discuss what we had found, Emma and I had decided to look at quotations from people about democracy, in this case a quotation by John Adams "
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide" So who is John adams? John Adams was a politician and the second president of the united states, he played a leading role in persuading congress to adopt the united states declaration of independence. Although the quote was from an american vice president, I thought the words were still very meaningful and relevant to democracy in general.
The other members of the group found images, one in particular of a young sweatshop worker lying on the floor, again as a group decision we traced the outline of the image and based our text round the outline of the body, using cut up letters from newspapers. I then set of and created a version in illustrator. From todays experience from working in groups and having to come up with a poster in a day as been very enjoyable yet challenging and has given me a great insight to producing our 'adshel' bus shelter poster for war on want.
