ILLUSION

 

The concept behind my poster is very simple. I took one of the 10 reasons cited in “10 Reasons to Oppose HIV Criminalization” and adapted it to my idea – that people are trying to illude themselves with these laws. HIV, as a virus, will not be kept behind bars. And opposing to the criminalization of HIV transmission or exposure, we should focus on helping preventing its spread. So, i tried to play with these concepts: bars, illusion, and helping, as the red bow means prevention/help. I think that even when subjects are serious and important as this one, they should be approached with lightness. I don’t think communication is here to impose, but to show other points of view and make people think.                                      

Ágata Ventura

Prevention not Punishment

HIV/AIDS

50×70 cm

Lila

 

Catarina Monteiro

Portugal, 2009

 

 

“Laws criminalizing HIV exposure and transmission ignore the real challenges of HIV prevention.”

It was based in this question that I designed my poster to good 50×70, trying to express that is better to governments to invest in prevention programs based in human rights than criminalizing and punishing HIV positive people. I constructed a bird cage as a metaphor for a human prison, which pretends to show how wrong this HIV laws are, appealing for the awareness of my poster’s viewers.    

Good 50×70 | Galeria HIV/AIDS

Child Labour isn’t working

 

The children are the future. This is, basicly, the way we must follow. We have to support this little persons and give them the best. A better life, a better health and a better future, provide them academic studies and conditions to have a safe future. Child labour exists and is real. Covers a million of children for all over the world and damage their future. We, as designers, have to act on that problem and show that they are more than economic resource. We have the possible to speak for them.

My ideia is that in the first view we see the work. But if we look closer we can see a children inside “the work”, represented by the hammers. The tools suffocate the children, what makes impossible their to improve their potencial future.

 

 

Child Labour

In my poster i gave a special attention at the construction of the education.
I think that every person, in this case every children, must have access to a good education, in a way that he or she can build the future…
I add some blocks to the picture, because I want to focus the labour on it. Does this blocks contain EDUCATION?..NO
Nowadays it still exist a lot of kids without education and without resources to have it and I think that we can help those kids.
Fortunely we live in a “part of world” that we don’t see this kind of posters or real live every day…but we know that exists…and in plenty 21º century this is unacceptable.
The child in this poster represent one of the many kids around the world in this situation, without education, and living only for benefit of others who use this kids only for one thing.. WORK!


Marta Barreto

African women are the pillars of the community and they have to be treated with respect and allowed to speak with their own voice.
Make someone stronger and more confident in controlling their life and claiming their rights is the main objective of my poster (“Empowering Women”).
By using some African symbols (hope, independence, bravery and valor), the woman figure and some African fabrics, I created my own pattern as the so-called ‘capulanas’, a colourful object witch represents the richness of the African continent.

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Rita Dias

Child Labour

This is the daily alphabet of many children in the world. Work tools! Instead of playing and learning, children are forced to do hard work: Adult’s work.
They shall learn and play; they shall be children and not to be forced to work and give up education!
Here we see the alphabet letters children should learn at primary school, but unhappily, in many countries; this alphabet gets transformed into work tools. We can see the transformation between letters and work tools until we are only able to see the tools; the education is substituted by work.
Work is the language those children are used to, and they are too small for that language; they are too small for work, they are too small for work tools.
Child work is not really working… 

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Juliana Duque

Healthcare Deprivation

People shouldn’t keep dying everyday when they are trying to find a way to achieve health care. My poster wants to show the hard, and many times impossible, way to get there. It’s a simple message that I want to pass, the road is too long and too difficult, there are a lot of obstacles like inequality. Some people have direct access to an hospital, for others, it is a maze to get simplemedical treatment.

Women’s Right’s Violation

In this project I wanted to work in something that I believe: the importance of women in all societies. They are who take care of our children (the future of all communities), who manage the lives of an entire family, who are always there when you need.
Due to the fact that this poster refers specifically to African women, I suggest cultural element through “capulanas” – tissues full of colour and life – to transform them in the constructive elements of the image.
I hope that all the influential people in the communities understand how women are necessary and powerful in building a better society.

Patrícia Simões

Women in Africa must be treated with respect and they should have the same rights as men. I’ve made an African woman made with words to express the importance they should have, how they deserve to have their own voice and be heard. African women should be seen – as they are – the pillar of their communities and they should have the right to decide upon their own lives.

Miguel Oliveira

Tal como foi focado no briefing deste tema o cartaz que desenvolvi
usa-se de uma linguagem ilustrativa para alertar para os perigos
que o excesso de emissões de CO2 representa para o meio ambiente
(efeito de estufa e consequente degelo dos polos) e o risco de extinção de algumas espécies animais.
Para enfatizar o problema da poluição desenhei o planeta terra com
o mar cinzento e toda a parte terrena com rabiscos pretos. Em algumas zonas
do globo também desenhei chaminés industriais apontadas ao céu a fumegar
(simbolo das emissoes de CO2).
Na zona do polo sul caem gotas que simulam o degelo, enquanto que no polo
norte aparece um urso polar que se afoga por nao existir gelo, pedindo ajuda.
A palavra Help foi desenhada de forma a parecerem mãos a erguerem-se em
pedido de auxilio ao mesmo tempo que as letras parecem derreter em associação
ao problema do degelo dos polos.