Final Draft of Awareness Poster

Here is the final draft of my awareness poster.

Awareness Poster

For this project I’m creating a poster for the American Red Cross. During the holidays blood donations tend to decrease, so I decided to make that my focus. My design is Santa with a “Be nice to me, I gave blood today!” sticker on his chest. I used the American Red Cross’s tag line “Give the gift of life” because I felt they would want me to use that tag line if I was actually making a poster of them and it fits in with the theme. I think this is an effect design because it encourages a person’s desire to give in a unique way during the holidays. I’m not sure how I’m going to treat the typography yet. I think I’m gong to use white text on a green background though.

If it’s not okay for the purpose of this project to use a current tag line, I would change the design to Santa eating some milk and cookies, or maybe just a plate of cookies and milk by a Christmas tree with the tag line “If you donate blood, you’ll get milk and cookies too.” I’m not sure if people who haven’t donated blood would know that you get cookies, though, and you don’t get milk, you get juice. Another idea would be an angel with the tag line “Be someone’s angel. Give blood.”

Here is the final version of my design.