The final thing we had to do was do the final touches on the placards. The first placard was ‘REAL MEN DON’T WEAR PINK’. Which we screen printed on few days ago. The pink cross on the print was added once it was all dry. The reason we chose pink was because as the purpose of the protest is go against the rules about gender colour so the use of pink is act of rebellion. For this reason, use of pink really made the placard stand out and it was created an aggressive effect. The hierarchy in design is focused on the ‘don’t’ which was the main purpose. We chose to keep it all same size and font. The pink cross did complete the design and other members of the group created their placard in the same style.
The second placard which was screenprinted by me. I used the design I made from the previous week. However, I changed my idea earlier as we decided to use the placards created by the illustrators for the ‘blue is a gender colour. We used there design for that slogan but I decided to go back to ‘Tomboy’ quote. As it was a last minute decision, we had few problems such as the time. I had a day to do the screenprints and let it all dry. However, as I knew which design I wanted to do the process wasn’t as stressful. Firstly, I changed the design to from just one ‘tomboy’ text to use the repetition. The difference between two designs can be seen below. The right side the final design and left is the old version. The reason I made this change because I think screenprint looks really good with repetition, digitally it might not look as good as it looks crowded but on paper it could look different.My team mates agreed with the decision too. I did make some small changes such as the size of the text, I made it smaller so it doesn’t fill up all the space as I was going to paint on top of it.
I’m really happy with the placard I made I think visually it’s very strong and has the aggressive language of the protesters. On the photo the colour of the paint looks lighter but in real life it’s dark blue. I think using a hand painted detail really helped the final look of the design. Giving it the hand made effect which is the main idea of the placards in the protests. I think the screenprint turned out good, it’s not neatly done which it fits in with the context. Some areas are lighter than others but I think overall it was a good outcome. I did agree with the David without the colour it didn’t fit in with the rest of the designs. As our main colours were black, white, blue, pink.
This is the final version of my placard. I didn’t have time to paint the ‘and what’ text before the presentation but finished it the next day. I think the bold type really makes the text stand out especially on black background. The text ‘and what’ completed the poster and it needed colour as it looked very simple with lot of empty space. The contrast between colours creates a strong visual effect.
FINAL PLACARDS
I’m happy with all of our outcomes I think they all have similar features which completes the whole project. The presentation went really well as David liked the screenprints. As I didn’t have time I couldn’t finish off my placard it didn’t have the ‘and what’ paint which David said it needed colour. So the next day we added colour to the placard and I’m really happy with how it turned out.
Busra Yildiz 