Trash Can project

Grotesque Portrait of the Institute

My poster depicting a 'grotesque' portrait of the institute. The main message I wanted to convey was the juxtaposition of seriousness with fun. I didn't want to go with something most other people have chosen to go with (making someone feel disturbed in a 'creepy' way). I made the institute look eerie-like to make it look serious and also quite 'deadly', in a sense, through the hanging of the wires. Then I added in an extremely happy character that doesn't really fit into the whole serious atmosphere of the setting.
(It may make more sense to you if you saw it before I put the character in:)

I also made him hang from a wire, so that if you looked at just the silhouette it would seem appropriate and look quite 'deadly', but it was also to indicate our ever-increasing reliance on computers and other electronic means to produce and present our work.

The main thought I want to convey through this poster is that, although in our projects is a sort of seriousness of what we have to do, the thing we should focus on is having fun with it in the process. Otherwise, if you're not liking what you're doing, it is very hard to get a convincing and interesting result that you're proud of. A lot of it is the way in which we view the brief of the project (well, that's what I think anyway).