Posters 1

I hadn’t done any scribbling for a couple of weeks. So last night I made these. 

One poster is from the This Is Your Brain On Eggs/Nancy Reagan school of drug education and the other is from the Just Say Know side. 

I still think a lot of the drug education whatevers would go with the first idea. That one came about when I started noticing these two designs (not any others) dumped here and there over the last few months. 

The second design is actually what I came up with when I did my Cert IV in Alcohol & Other Drugs oh at least fifteen years ago in the day when HepC treatment was NO fun. Trust me I remember and I was lucky to only have to do the Interferon course for six months. 

I had to get my first computer for going to TAFE which was a gawdsend in the end. However there was quite a few steep learning curves and frantic phone calls to my eldest kids back then I'm sure. Anyway there was not a hope in hell of me turning in a poster using photoshop I can assure you. (I still can't use it) So I handed in a sketch of that second design. Lettering would have been done using a lightbox and probably an old Letraset catalogue. I knew the copy was good and I was quite pleased with my HEPCats thang. 

Funnily enough tho I knew that I would lose marks for the amateur hour work handed in I didn't expect the lecturer to fawn over the winning work. 

That was a film (a very well made film) of shots of trains coming into Frankston Stn and trains leaving Frankston Stn...nice blending of scenes, a bit of slo-mo whatever and then the message (as this was a drug course) KEEP ON THE RIGHT TRACKS! 

I mean seriously WTF? 

He was marked on how well the film was made but this wasn't a fugn film course and that message? 

Strangely enough at the completion of that wee qualification I was actually offered a job at Frankston TAFE lecturing in the AOD Dept. 

Sadly my inability to speak in public put paid to that...

Well see my design #1 above