PSA
The PSA (Public Service Announcement) is a project that challenged Design students to investigate about a certain social issue relevant today and design a poster to encourage social change about this certain issue.
PSA Poster
PSA Moodboard
I created a public service announcement with the purpose to inform people about the difficulties encountered in overcoming a language barrier. Language barriers are a common social problem in the United States, especially for immigrants who are trying to acquire the language as they settle into a new country. Because native English speakers don’t understand how it can impact someone’s life, it’s most frequently overlooked. I designed this PSA poster because I’ve noticed that some individuals may be really hostile toward others who don’t speak English. I want my audience to understand that being more sympathetic towards people with language barriers can go a long way. Though it’s an issue many may face, people don’t find this important and I hope to change that. I want my audience to understand that being more sympathetic towards people with language barriers can go a long way.
The support I got from Freestyle Academy made it possible to create this PSA poster. I came up with a rough outline that helped me come up with my final product. My PSA featured an illustration of two people speaking with each other, one of them is larger and more aggressive while the other is the opposite. I illustrated one speech bubble as a giant one with jaws trying to consume the second speech bubble, which is much smaller. I use this example to demonstrate how daunting it might be to try to speak up. Not everyone will satisfy a person’s demand to speak a particular language, my tagline is “NOT Everyone Speaks YOUR Language”. My design is simple but very straightforward to make my message clear. I can confess that it was difficult to create this PSA because I had different ways to go about this but I’m glad I settled on this.
Aboriginal Art
Through this project, we were able to explore Australian Aboriginal Art. We used Adobe Photoshop to create traditional painting methods like dots and lines. We also learned the different Aboriginal symbols to make our final more unique by representing such things like our family, friends, astrological sign, and constellation.
Aboriginal Art
For this project, we explored a different style to express more about ourselves as individuals and potentially tell a story through different symbols of aboriginal art. To begin my art piece, I designed a border with my zodiac sign: cancer, as it represents my birthdate. I also included the cancer constillation that corresponds with my astronomical symbol. The two aboriginal symbols I decided to use was the “people sitting” and “water” symbol. Being around family and friends is important to me and the “people sitting” symbol perfectly captures the significance of this for me. Using the “water” aboriginal symbol that flows through my artwork, I tried to convey the idea of how water is very prominent in my life as it’s one of the things I love. Finally, in the middle of everything, I placed my spirit animal, the sea otter as my central piece representing my personality. Sea otters are not only my favorite sea animals, but I believe we share similar traits.
To create this piece, I first sketched ways to put everything together, and then I used the Adobe Photoshop pen tool to create dots, part of the aboriginal art style, of the symbols. Playing around with the colors and the different patterns, I created my aboriginal art piece. At first, I was struggling with the pattern of the “water symbol”, I was not sure how I could assemble the dots to help my audience understand that it was water. However, after looking at conventional aboriginal art, I found inspiration and incorporated it for my final creation. By creating this, I truly came to terms with who I am, and I did my best to convey it via the many patterns and earthy hues similarly to The Aborigines.