Introduction:
Our topic for the Propaganda Poster project is a food desert. A food desert is an area where the community is limited to non nutritional food stores. For research we found information about food deserts from multiple different sources and both made collections of different inspirations that we found for propaganda posters. Our main goal for this poster was to portray how unhealthy it is to not have access to good food.
Notes:
-Economic forces have driven grocery stores out of many cities in recent years, making them so few and far between that an individual’s food shopping trip
-Studies have found that wealthy districts have three times as many supermarkets as poor ones do,
-Many food deserts contain an overabundance of fast food chains selling cheap “meat” and dairy-based foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt.
Articles:
Thumbnail Sketches and Roughs:
Draft:
Photographer Citation:
Africa Studio
Final:
Final Explanation:
In our final design we photoshopped a man into the McDonald's parking lot. We added a filter to the image to make the colors blend together more to create a poster that could stand out more. But, we picked a very simple font because of the serious topic and we wanted to show the simple message as easily as possible. The main focus of this should be the man standing in the parking lot and not the text. Our topic was Food Deserts which are areas where people do not have access to healthy and sustainable foods and are often limited to fast food and very poor quality food. In America this often causes people to become extremely unhealthy and often obese. This is why we used a McDonalds for the background. We also used this setting picture of McDonalds while it was raining because we wanted to show the depressing truth that is behind this message painting the portrait with a more gray color.
