Robot Idea

This was the next new idea I came up with after the camera idea, it still incorporated the message of things not being what you think it is but I concentrated on the sweatshop workers this time and how people see them. The idea behind it was that the poster would show rows of the same sweatshop workers all looking the same, this would connote that the one cares that they have individual personalities and sees them only as machines that make their clothes. The mirror shows an image of a robot rather than the actual person standing in front of it.

In the end, it was obvious that this poster could easily be made a laughing stock and the serious message of how the workers are no more than machines to us would be lost. I then began thinking of a 2nd dimension for this robot idea which turned out to be a machine placed on the streets that would accept 2p coins, and cough up a tiny sweater shaped piece of card with information about how to help War on Want. Either that, or have a person spray painted silver standing perfectly still to portray the machine. When someone on the street donates some money, they would start moving and hand them the sweater piece of card.

Both of these ideas seemed feasible, though only if I had a bigger budget to work with. The salary for the street performer would be high, and to make the robot would be quite costly too. In addition, this poster could easily degrade the people making sweaters, and that's not the feeling I want to get across. I needed to take a step back and look at how I put the message across and whether illustrating on the computer was the best way to portray the idea. Maybe I was getting too worked up about the technique I wanted to use and didn't think whether Illustrator was the right software to use.