Something a little bit different from me today. Along with our normal assignments, my Illustration class has studio assignments, where essentially all work must be completed during regular class work time. Our first one was dealing with poster art. We had a few hours to sketch out an idea last week and then we had most of the class period this week to construct a 17″ by 22″ poster that incorporated at least one use of lettering, illustration, and either traditional or digital collage. It was a good challenge, some people did not succeed. I decided to focus on bike safety as a topic, and this originally was going to say “Start wearing a helmet TODAY” on the bottom, but it turns out the lettering did not have to be quite so specific, so I just kept “Too Late.” I also set out to create a poster that would be ready to screen print, if I chose to do so later.

My concept was that after you die in a horrible bike accident is the only time when it is “too late” to start wearing a helmet, but I get the feeling that my meaning may be misconstrued, once the 17″ by 22″ version gets hung in the hallways at school next week, due to the fact that I go to a school that lost a current student and an alumni to bike accidents last semester. It’ll be interesting to hear the feedback.

On a side note, I totally want to start a bicycle gang now, and have this skull dude be our logo. Who wants in?!

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