Critical Design
War Children
Poster Campaign
People tend to avoid facing the reality that in other areas of the world, war is happening as a result of political decisions. From time to time we hear news of a war, or we might even see pictures on social media, but prefer not to think about it. But what if war was threatening us, what if the children being killed every day were our children, what if we had to feel all the pain that mothers feel when they have to look for their children under the ruins of their destroyed homes? Would our position against war be the same?
Academic Work
War Children
2016
Saying “everyone deserves a childhood” and then asking the question “what if your child was one of them” makes the audience compare their idea of childhood with the Syrian children, and think for a moment about the way they would feel if they or their children were in the same crisis.
Illustration details
Media
Acrylics, Water Color, Photoshop
Booklet
Traditional Book Binding
Methodes
To increase the impact of my work and make it more critical, I decided to create five posters that would work together. On the first one, there is only one image of one child in the top corner on a black background. The only copy is the website address in a small size at the bottom of the poster. Adding more faces to the next four posters created the final complete version of the poster. The intention was to generate curiosity in the people who pass by the poster board every day by adding a poster with more faces. They would then think about what these images are trying to tell them.