The topic of my design was bullying. I think this is an important topic
because it isn’t something that happens in school, it happens anywhere. Some
people define bullying as a kid picking on another kid, but bullying is truly
just someone being cruel to someone else for no reason. Adults do it too but
people don’t usually see that as bullying. I hope people who might be bullies
will look at my poster and get the message, which is to step back from
bullying. When looking hard enough at my design, it might hurt your eyes
because of how it looks physically. But it might also hurt the bullies sense of
pride when they realize who they are and how their actions effects not just
their victims, but it also effects them as people. Belittling a person to make
yourself feel better isn’t going to get you anywhere in life. All it does is
give you a false sense of pride and power, when really it makes you weaker than
the person you’re trying to hurt.
I believe this
will work in a school setting because bullying is always found in schools. To
be quite honest, I don’t see too much bullying in my school, but it’s still out
there, whether it being physical bullying or cyber bullying. I’ve never seen
someone physically hurt somebody at our school for no reason, but I have seen a
lot of disrespect. I think a good place for my design to be displayed is around
the cafeteria area. That’s an area where all students go at sometime in there
day. That’s also where groups of people walk around the school during there
lunch. I’ve seen groups of kids mock other kids and just show disrespect to
other students or staff.
For my design, I
made the main focus point very large and in the center. I want that to be the
first thing people see. I want my design to leave a good first impression on
the viewer when they first look at it. I didn’t use any color because of the
theme of my design. Bullying is dark so I kept my design all black and white
and a little bit of gray. I used zig-zagging and overlapping lines to create an
optical allusion. You have to look through the lines, or either be standing at
a distance, to see what is actually being shown. I used a person in the fetal
position to illustrate sadness and I used the words “step back” below the
person. I put that image of the person and the words “step back” at a very low opacity
so they are hard to see. The dark and thick lines make it so you can’t fully
see or make out what you’re really looking at until you either literally “look
between the lines” or “step back.” By “step back” I’m literally meaning, step
back to see the design, and to step back from bullying. Then at the bottom I wrote
“you’re hurting yourself by hurting others” so people better understand the
message I’m trying to convey.
