In Class Exercises
Iterations with proverbs
Bite off more than you can chew
Cleanliness is next to godliness
Daily Exercise
Using the statistic from the KidsCan survey:
33% of kiwi women have had to choose food over sanitary items and the proverb I was given in class 'Bite off more than you can chew'.
33% of kiwi women have had to choose food over sanitary items and the proverb I was given in class 'Bite off more than you can chew'.
This iteration works well for these two ideas I want to combine.
Sourcing images from Unsplash:
This will be the first image I try my idea on, but if it doesn't work I have sourced another image of a burger to fall back on.
Photo by Daniel Ore on Unsplash
Photo by Erol Ahmed on Unsplash
This is a photo I didn't save to use for anything in particular, but one that I found striking and potentially interesting for my topic. I like the idea of a popsicle melting looks like a tampon.
This is a photo I didn't save to use for anything in particular, but one that I found striking and potentially interesting for my topic. I like the idea of a popsicle melting looks like a tampon.
Photo by Gabrielle Rocha Rios on Unsplash
This is another photo I found while searching through the list, I'm not planning on using it but I saved it for inspiration. I think the idea of writing on a pad in real life and photographing that, instead of writing on it later in photoshop is really cool.
To begin with, I cut the sandwich in half in photoshop and then brought the two halves onto an A1 page also in photoshop. There I began to play with the idea of a pad being in the sandwich instead of a slice of meat or something similar.
I could have continued with the pad theme and tried to draw it better but I thought I might have a play with replacing a pad with tampons. I did this because it might be more obvious what it was because tampons have strings and it's pretty easy to tell what they are supposed to be, compared to a floppy looking thing.
Here was what it looked like with tampons inside, I much preferred this for the above reasons. My next step was to bring it into InDesign where I could begin to put text on the poster.
This is another photo I found while searching through the list, I'm not planning on using it but I saved it for inspiration. I think the idea of writing on a pad in real life and photographing that, instead of writing on it later in photoshop is really cool.
To begin with, I cut the sandwich in half in photoshop and then brought the two halves onto an A1 page also in photoshop. There I began to play with the idea of a pad being in the sandwich instead of a slice of meat or something similar.
Here I was mainly figuring out what I wanted to say, as well as having a look at a few different fonts.
I got rid of the words 'period poverty' because I wanted the metaphor to speak for itself, and readers to find out more in the small text underneath.
Changing fonts because I felt like the first was a little too 'silly' or 'not serious' for the topic. Also utilising scale more and making the sandwich bigger to take up the whole page. This grabs the attention more.
Trying out red because we are talking about blood.
Deciding against the red title because I didn't think it stood out enough, the white does that well. I put the smaller text in red because it hides it a bit more so the eye doesn't get drawn there first. I also wanted to keep some of the text red to draw on those period associations.
Now I had all the elements and colours I wanted, the last step was to figure out exactly where on the page I wanted everything.
This was the one I decided on.
I tried having the layout completely different because sometimes the things I think won't look good are actually the best ideas. In this case though I think the previous iteration was stronger because the burger gets lost down the bottom and the title is the first thing to catch the eye. I think it's important the image is the focal point because then it catches you out, it makes you stop and think why is there a tampon sandwich? What is the point of this?
So far out of the 3 posters we have done, this is definitely my strongest. I didn't really know how to use metaphor to say something and the first two posters were really literal compared to this. This is a technique I really want to develop further because I think it is so strong, and immediately takes a poster from one level to the next.
Research
Article written by university lecturers, has statistics and facts.
19% of Maori youth have experienced period poverty and 16% have missed school because they couldn't afford menstrual products. This research is from the Youth19 survey, which aims to collect data on a range of issues affecting New Zealand youth.
Kidscan survey with hard facts and statistics. Other blogs and articles often reference this.
Almost a quarter of New Zealand women (more than 5000 surveyed) have missed school or work because they have been unable to afford sanitary items.
51.3% said they had found it difficult to access sanitary items due to cost at some point
1 in 2 kiwi women have found it difficult to access sanitary items due to cost
1 in 5 kiwi women have missed school or work due to a lack of sanitary items
More than 33% of kiwi women have had to choose food over sanitary items
One in three respondents said they had had to prioritise buying other items, like food, over sanitary items. When they couldn’t afford them, most (53.8%) resorted to toilet paper, but 7.7% had used rags, 3% old cloths and many mentioned using disposable or cloth nappies.29% of under 17 year olds have missed school or work due to not having access to sanitary items
Some of the respondents comments:
“Too expensive and often babies nappies and formula came first. Have used a disposable nappy more than once at night.”
“We had to use a pad for an entire day to make them last and not go out for fear of leakage.”
“Single mama. Bills to pay food to buy. Can only afford to buy when they are on special.”
“I have to sacrifice a day or two of food to be able to afford what many call ‘a female luxury’”
“It’s a luxury item for us, and our kids come first... I’ll just fold a length of loo paper”
“Condoms are given out like confetti but why not menstrual items?”
“When my daughter got her period I made sure she got pads and I had no money left when it was my turn.”
Artist Model
I looked at a book by designer Tony Arefin. I will include some photos I took from the book of his work that I particularly love.
The repeating type is so nice here, although I actually almost want more colour.
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