Poster research

This is a poster that uses illustrations to mark the soul that is coming from the brain. Although this poster isn’t about gender representation this is the sort of style that I have come across and would like to expand on. I think the illustrations draw your attention to the female and this is an idea that i’m trying to get across. 

Here is a poster that uses the idea of a woman holding her breasts. They are very female hands and show how a woman is being objectified as food. The womans breasts are transformed into two massive burgers and the hands are positioned as if a woman is covering them up. 

This is an approach that I would like to go down. Showing how men can be seen in any size, shape or colour. Whereas we see how a woman is ‘suppose’ to look like before she can enter the door. This shows how the media uses gender and how you must look like something to be accepted. This is also backed up in cartoons where the men are normally tall whilst the women are skinny. 

This is a birthday cake that is shaped in the figure of a woman.  women are considered consumable objects that can be violated. They are rewards. Violence here is seen as something funny and acceptable. Out of all of the pieces to take out they use the bum which again shows the womans body being used as an object. In this case a piece of cake with a candle ontop of it. 

This advert uses real trousers whilst changing the man into a typographic layout. This is an advert to sell the mans trousers and avoids using an male stereotypes. I like this poster because it doesn’t use a male model to help influence you to buy their trousers. The advert is very clever because it makes you focus on the trousers and therefore your getting what you see. 

After speaking to a few people in general around my class I found out that a lot of the female people in my class have been told to smile whilst none of the men in my class have ever been told to. This is again something that uses gender stereotype as people believe women need to smile whilst men can get away with things like this. It is also very illustrative and makes it personal with the reader. 

This poster is the one that caught my eye the most. It uses a female woman who is naked and has illustrative work around her cover her up. This is the main approach I would like to take forward because it draws you to the women and this is the center of attention. I also like how the text is there in the bottom left covering her bum with text whether or not it was intended. What I like about this poster is how it fuses a photograph of a naked woman with illustrations going all over the page filling up the necessary parts of the woman.