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Last week at
Shanghai Normal University in China -- as part of
EXPO 2010 -- there was an international poster exhibition entitled "Messages to the World! " and I was flattered to participate (although not attend, unfortunately!). Here's my poster, and some behind-the-scenes junk.
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Plastic polyethylene (mostly low-density, but often high-density)
sacks are by-and-large wasteful, ridiculous, terrible, etc. Hopefully by drawing this poster I can at least remember to bring my re-usable sacks to the grocery. A Message to Me! I wanted to do a "
How That Works" infographic, and keep it international/pantomime. My sketch:
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Some reference:
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Library of Ink Drawings, parts that I thought I would need (I didn't end up needing a sad molar or a pickle flying out of a pickle jar):
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All my drawings vectorized, rebuilt, colored, textured and designed into place:
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I really would've liked to screenprint these (and still might), as they were conjured as a 2-color silkscreen, but since these things were being FTPed to Shanghai to save on shipping costs anyway I took the easy way out. Here's the scan of part of an old canvas duffel bag I found in the basement:
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And here's the finished poster!
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Keep fighting the good fight, canvas tote-bag!