SH*T! is happening | United States
“SH*T! is happening” Just like that. No filter!. The initials of Stop Human Trafficking transfom into SH*T! . It is a way just with letters of create awareness of this crisis.
“SH*T! is happening” Just like that. No filter!. The initials of Stop Human Trafficking transfom into SH*T! . It is a way just with letters of create awareness of this crisis.
I’ve been inspired by part of the “Shadows after dark” lyrics which says:
You can see a mans face
Trust no shadows after dark
I have used colors and shapes for “darkness” and “danger” feelings. Not every hand that you stand on, is god hand.
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.
Inspired by bold, dramatic, typographic expression, I executed my design with ink and paint to create a result that is both graphic as well as forcefully impactful.
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.
Human trafficking is widespread all over the world. The main objectives are sexual exploitation, trafficking of children, organ removal, labor exploitation. My design shows the main purpose of human trafficking in the form of illustrations to alert people to the seriousness of human trafficking.People who are abducted and sold by human traffickers are dragged into the abyss by the devil. We should be vigilant and fight against human trafficking organizations.
The message I want to convey with my poster Is the urge to stand up against the comercialization of people.
According to statistics: children account for 50% of international human trafficking.
Children are kidnapped, stolen, forcibly robbed, lured and sold….
The missing child is like falling into a snake’s nest and a deep cave, sad and helpless
in the endless darkness.