Research and Inspiration #20

Biography
 Frank Shepard Fairey was born on February 15, 1970. Graduating from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1988, then in 1992 he graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. Coming out with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, he started off his career. The artist is a American contemporary graphic designer as well as a illustrator, who came from the skateboarding scene. The first major piece that he did was named "Andre the Giant has a Posse" for the company OBEY. Frank because famous after doing his Barack Obama "Hope" poster, after the lawsuit that had occurred afterwards.

Research

Social Issue:

A social issue is when something in the modern day is an issue/problem. Take for example a corrupt leader, that leader is a social issue because of the problems that they are causing. It can be narrowed down to a certain person so a world wide problem like global warming.

Colors:

Black and white are widely used no matter what social issue, both can be used to convey many different emotions.

Trends:

Politics plays a major role in todays social issues, a lot are talked about and are from politics. Environmental issue are a very big one that is commonly talked about that is used.

Words:

Emotions are commonly used like "hope", "hate", "desire" these can get people easily wrapped in emotion. Some words that have a lot of meaning behind them like "poverty" or "divine".

People:

People that are generally used in Social Issue logos are usually very inspirational people, charismatic, or someone that can evoke emotions out of people that will inspire them or feel the emotion behind the design.

Graphics:

The leave is resembling life and the dirty hand is holding up the leave in a way that it is keeping the leave alive.

The blood dripping from the gun resembles the blood the bullet will draw from the trigger being pulled.

The image above is a raindrop that is almost empty but for the very bottom. It is about the droughts all around the world and how some people don't have enough water than what they should have.