We were told one of our placards had to be in the style of Stanley Green’s in his work for ‘Protein Man’. The placards were simple but effective, using all white type n a black background, filling the majority of the space with large, bold, sans serif letters which make it look important and authoritative.
We met as a group to complete our Stanley Green placard and decided on the phrase ‘DON’T LET THEM SIT IN SILENCE, BE THEIR VOICE’. I think the phrase overall sums up what our whole idea was about. It was about creating designs which making people understand and realise what people with mental health are going through, and helping to do something about it.
We spoke about the size of each word and decided to make certain words bigger then others to create a feeling of hierarchy and give the more important words more emphasis. We wanted ‘don’t’, ‘silence’ and ‘voice’ to be larger than the rest of the words as we thought they were the most important. We cut the letter out and painted around them in white paint on a black background to create a splattered and messy effect, similar to the effect we wanted in our illustrations, to show the messy and almost confusing feel that people with mental health issues might go through. Similar to our illustrations, we also wanted the idea of the words moving out of the dark and into the light.
Ben Jackson 