For my final design assignment, I made a propaganda poster for DS106! I have always loved the aesthetic of propaganda posters, mostly because regardless of the topic or intent, they are so heavy-handed in their rhetoric that they can often be unintentionally comical. I decided to also tie this into the course theme by having the message of the poster be about telling your own story in the way that only you can. Here was the result:

For this assignment, I worked in Adobe Animate once more. I chose an American color palette to immediately bring forth the cultural connotation of WWII propaganda, especially since my messaging was heavily influenced by 40s war-effort rhetoric. First, I sketched out a rough idea of the poster. Then I blocked out the colors, specifically choosing shades of red, white, and blue that felt faded or dusty to further evoke a retro feel. Next, I drew the figure, supposedly shouting this message through their megaphone. I tried to draw in a style that would feel like an illustration from the 40s or 50s. Finally, I added the text, spacing everything out so that it would feel balanced and so that the overall message would be easily understood.

       Are you doing all you can? that is the question I continue to ask myself this semester. Time is flying by and I feel as if I don’t have enough time to do all I ended to do before the semester ends. They say as a senior you may encounter senioritis. I now understand what they mean. I know I have so much to do, but I don’t have the motivation to do it. So I’m forcing myself to find that motivation from somewhere and get the work done.

      Doing this Assignment, I used my story to find a way to talk to my fellow classmates and DS106 users.  Are we doing all we can to finish the semester with good grades?

For this assignment I used two posters and combined them to make one poster.

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Third assignment time. I found this assignment where I’m supposed to edit a propaganda poster and make it DS106 propaganda. I flipped through some old WWI-era posters and found this gem:

For some reason, it feels super clickbait-y. Almost like “What THIS one soldier did will make YOU want to join the war”. Because of this, I decided to use this poster as my base. I edited it (for way too long) and ended up with this:

I created the first DS106 by piecing together other letters from that title. The second one was similar, but I had to create the “6” entirely by hand, so it ended up looking a little wonky. For the last one, I found a font similar to the existing text, then manually filled it in with red so it’d have an outline that looked right (Paint.NET isn’t very good at adding outlines to text). I think I’m getting better at removing text from posters and making it look like it was never there! I also did that earlier this week with the poster daily create, but I think I did a better job with this one. Pretty good propaganda, if you ask me.

Tools used:

• Paint.NET

The Story

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