HURRICANE POSTER PROJECT, a collaboration of artists and designers from around the world to help raise money for the victims. Over 180 different limited-edition series of posters were produced, raising about $50,000. Many of the posters won major design awards, and the effort was profiled in numerous publications. Exhibitions of the show appeared around the country and in Europe. Additionally, many of the posters are now in permanent collections of several major museums, including the Library of Congress and the Louvre. The haiti poster contest was launched three days after the January 12th, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The project is a collaborative effort by the design community to help effect change through our work. Signed and numbered, limited edition posters have been donated by designers and artists from around the world. All money raised will be donated to Doctors Without Borders.
In response to Hurricane Katrina, Walker created "After the Deluge," since the hurricane had devastated many poor and black areas of New Orleans. Walker was bombarded with news images of "black corporeality," including fatalities from the hurricane reduced to bodies and nothing more. She likened these casualties to African slaves piled onto ships for the Middle Passage, the Atlantic crossing to America.
2. Migrant Mother For many, this picture of Florence Owens Thompson (age 32) represents the Great Depression. She was the mother of 7 and she struggled to survive with her kids catching birds and picking fruits. Dorothea Lange took the picture after Florence sold her tent to buy food for her children. She made the first page of major newspapers all over the country and changed people’s conception about migrants.
+Power of the Poster
My timeline's central focus is to demonstrate how the posters and magazine covers of major/traumatic events in history is/are recorded and how the display of these events through posters has changed over time. Each poster/magazine cover has a different meaning. The relationship between all of the pieces I chose is interesting, especially when they are juxtaposed. I chose a Chronologial order of events to arrange my information.
Here is my prototype for what my project is going to look like aesthetically. I wanted something clean and concise to allow viewers to interpret the information cleanly. My goal in the visual aspect was to make the viewer interact and respond to the display of information in an interested manner. I have also included an image of how the timeline "works", an image sequence of how the information folds out.
