The final project in one of my Graphic Design courses, this design is a social cause poster focusing on the Uyghur humanitarian crisis in Xinjiang, China. Countless Uyghurs are being thrown into reeducation camps, and there is a frightening lack of information or awareness about their treatment. Therefore, I wanted to design a poster that made use of evocative graphics and subtle textures to highlight the brutality and urgency of the situation.
The final composition features gallows with a Chinese-inspired pagoda top and a tasbeeh (Islamic prayer beads) as the noose. The background contains a subtle texture of a map of the Xinjiang province, referencing the Chinese region where the Uyghurs reside.
My process in designing this poster included several rounds of thumbnail ideation, featured above. These thumbnails were narrowed down through the valuable feedback from my professor and fellow classmates.
Pictured above are examples of stages and iterations my poster went through during the design process. I experimented with style, color, textures, and compositional arrangements.
