POSTER 2

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This poster was inspired by the black death as a victim of the plague is simlar to a withered branch. A beam of light is shone on the arm of a victim revealing the swollen lymph node which is one of the symptom of bubonic plague. A rat is hiding in darkness but its eyes glow in dark as the tapetum reflect the small amount of light. A crow sees this as a meal not knowing that the lice on the rat carries a deadly bacteria. This poster was made using Krita.

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In here the crow is a signifier of death as they are all black and have a habit of eating dead carcass (Schwan,1990). The poster composed in thirds. The salience is on the crow as it has the most contrast with the background and is in the middle of the poster. I think the arm and the rat blended quite naturally into the darkness. The letters are too large and compete with the crow; The swollen lymph node on the arm look like egg instead of what it is intended to be. Overall I think the poster worked as it should but it did not gave me that death like atmosphere I was hoping to create.

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Reference:

Faculty of Design, University of Auckland (2020). DES101 Week 3 Lecture slides [Powerpoint slides]. Retrieved from https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz/courses/45443/pages/week-3-lecture?module_item_id=814238

Schuwan, M.(1990). Raven: The Northern Bird of Paradox. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20100102055945/http://www.wildlife.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=birds.raven

Matsuo, Bashō. And Barnhill, David, Landis.(2004). Bashō’s Haiku: Selected Poems of Matsuo Bashō. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press

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