Studio Brief 5: Poster Research

As poster research I have collected some very influential, memorable and high impact posters. 

The poster below was part of a campaign from "stonewall", a gay, lesbian and bisexual charity. The phrase was so blunt and written in such a block font that it shocked people across the UK. 

The well known poster below was a motivational poster created by the the British government in 1939 a few months before the start of the Second World War. The intentions of the poster were to raise the hopes of the general public. The poster uses an informal sans-serif font with a british red as the background. The

The poster below was created by Shepard Fairey in 2008 to promote Barack Obama in the elections. The colours are slight variations of the U.S. flag colours which symbolise patriotism. Obama is looking upward evoking a sense of "hope" in the future for America. The posters composition fits along with the Fibonacci spiral directing the eye along the word "hope" then to his circular logo, and then to his face. This implies that he is America's hope.