It represents people like the property of those who has kidnapped them and fell the right to obtain any benefit from them. Some of them are trying to get out of the situation, some others are just resigned to an uncertain future.
A victim of human traffiking is trapped in fear. The poster depicts the ”fear” trying to grab his victim.
Women, Men and Children are trapped in fear and explotation. In the poster, victims escaping
through a prison cell which is symbolically rendered as a barcode
Human traffickers prey on people who are poor, isolated and vulnerable. It Iis not only more and more that educated, intelligent, well-groomed people are becoming victims of human trafficking.
However, individuals are vulnerable to trafficking not only because of conditions in their countries of origin. The allure of opportunity, the constant demand for cheap goods and services, and the expectation of a secure income drive people into potentially dangerous situations where they are at risk of exploitation.
Change the meaning is a typographic poster. I tried to bring a dynamic between the word “slave” and “save” where the victim becomes the missing L. My intention is to make people think that if we save that girl we change not only the meaning of the word but the meaning of the lives of victims of human trafficking.
In this poster, I wanted to make a story and show on one side the freedom and the bar code that is considered a label for buying people.
As a message I wanted put word freedom in second plane, and in first plane bar code as a sign that people are cruelly sold and bought long for, in this time.
Also I wanted to combine word freedom in some kind of fog, as a sign of some hope for better, and a sign of bar code that represent every person that has been sold. Numbers on bar code are crossed and replaced with zeros that represent faith, hope and freedom in last.Idea of this poster was to tell everyone that we are not things, and that we are not fore sale. We are made for happiness, understanding, loving, laughing and care over all.
My poster is designed to create and spread awareness about the major global issue
of Human Trafficking. Before starting the design, while researching and looking
at the statistics, I understood that children and young adults are one of the major
victims of this global issue. This is why I decided to create my poster, focusing on this
category of victims. I used a format of online shopping for my poster, something we
all are familiar with these days. My main aim was to show that humans are not objects
and they certainly cannot have a price tag on them. This is why I created a bold stamp
that says ‘Not for Sale’ right on top of the webpage design. It grabs your attention
and this is the effect I intended to create on the viewer of my poster. Research showed
that an average of 1,200,000 children are victims of Human Trafficking each year.
This is the statistic I added in the form of the search result value. The title of the
poster, ‘Have a heart, don’t add to cart,’ is to tell the viewer that it is not right to treat
these helpless children as objects for sale. Human Trafficking is a very emotional
subject. To support this, I indirectly and yet, obviously, wanted the message to
emphasise the values of sympathy, empathy and justice towards these children.
I hope that my poster can help even in the slightest way possible so that we may
never come across a time when anyone scrolls down a page searching for
human beings with the intention of ‘adding them to their cart.’ Let’s stick to
purchasing objects rather than people.
The “Watch out” poster was designed to make awareness that human trafficking is real and disguised as pretty faces that earn your thrust, but behind them there’s a monster that swallows you into a life time of exploration and abuses.
The wolf and the capital letter make referente to the tale “Little red hood” where the wolf disguise to grab red hood.
The “Fresh meat” poster was designed aiming at comparing the simple act of buying/selling a piece of meat with the human trafficking. Putting side by side human and meat, it is conveyed the idea of how easy and banal something that is completely wrong can be to those who do it.
The human figure has no gender since this can happen to anyone. The typography was carefully chosen to make reference to the STOP signs and allude to the danger.