I wanted to carry on with the ‘how many times do you have to see it to believe it’ placard, but I wanted to experiment more with different colours and mediums. The first experiments I did were very similar to my previous ones, expect instead of writing ‘mental illness’ I wanted to write actual illnesses such as Ocd and Depression on to give more of an insight into some of the mental health diseases. I also found some facts about mental illnesses and suicide to further add to the message and show how serious it really is.
I wanted the main text in a sans serif font in the centre of the page as this is the most important statement and i wanted it to be large and important, I then added the text in red in the background, in a the font ‘brush script’ to make it look like it has been roughly drawn on to give contrast against the text in the centre.
I think they work well to convey the message but after my research into protests I thought that the most effective and moving placards were handmade and add much more meaning to it. So I wanted to either paint or use screen printing to create my final outcome.
Ben Jackson 