Week 2 Mockup Posters

Below are mockups of idea that I have started to work on. The men and women toilet symbols are place holders for pictures that will come later. These are for the interim critic in week 3.

 

The poster above is working off a previous drawing that combined the saying "No Free Lunch" and my idea of women in the workplace.

This poster design is also rifting off an earlier exercise where the word "Butterfly" and my topic were combined.

The above and below images are very similar but also very common ideas for a lot posters about the gender wage gap, which isn't quite what I was looking for for my topic. 

Week 1 Study of Poster Artists

Both of these posters are about abuse or assault in some form but are presented in very differing ways. The poster at the very top created impact by uses an overload of information in the form of stats. Where as the poster above uses simple but contrasting block images to convey the message of child abuse clearly and effectively. I think that the poster with much less writing is much more effective than one with too many words.

These two posters are of  different time periods, the one below from 2014 and the one on the right is from 1961. But yet both are about equally the rights for women in the work place. The 1961 poster uses the symbol of a scales that most people are familiar with to show that both the man and the women are equal as beings so therefore they should be equal when paid. The poster from 2014 uses the average difference in pay checks between men and women to reveal the gap in pay. This use of stats connects with the viewer because they are used to being paid for their own work and can see that women earning less isn’t good. Both posters are effective but the above one speaks to modern day people and can be related to.

Week 1 Narrowed Down Ideas

I have chosen to look at the wider topic of women in the work place. This means I can look through many different lens, such as;
- Gender
- From the perspective of women
- From the perspective of men
- The salaries
- Sexism
- Stereotypes
- Education
- Marriage
- Children (pregnancy)

Week 1 Ideas Brainstorm

Brainstorm for ideas for my Ihi Wehi;

Issue of women in the workplace:
Gender - Block colours, symbols of women/men, half and half. Striking colours.
Sexism - Historic looking, sepia tones, photographic.
Money/Salary

Issue of abuse:
Sexual Abuse/Rape (both women and men)
Family Violence - Photos with painted overlaid bruises, half with makeup on?
Racial Abuse - Faces with many colours, showing ancestry for each person, we are all a mix.

Issue of stereotypes:
Untrue stereotypes - Peeling back the layers of a persons exterior to show who they are inside.
Hurtful stereotypes

Voting:
Women's vote
Native's vote