For my Media and Design course, we were prompted to recreate a designwork for film adaptation of a classic play - while referencing a current, ongoing social initiative. I choose to redesign the posterwork for the 2015 Film, Chi-Raq. The film is a modern-day retelling of the Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata. The play is about the organization of women in ancient Greece using unified sexual abstinence as method to stop the Peloponnesian War. In this film, the war is the civil and social war being waged in Chicago by rival gangs.

In my approach to this poster, I wanted to reference native elements of Africa - as a native, unifying symbolism for the demographic at war within the film's narrative. I wanted the font to be both bold and scriptive. For the female model, I wanted to reference Betty Grable's 1930's war photo. I chose that piece of iconic imagery because it represents both beauty and power in the female body - the dynamic that fuels the eventual peace in both Aristophanes and Spike Lee's works.