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Uncle Sam Goes Digital

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My first ever design assignment task was to create a DS106 propaganda poster {***}. This was the one I chose from the Designing Posters category. We had to pick a poster from WW2. I know these propaganda posters are well-known and I was excited to get started to inspire my fellow DS 106ers!

I decided to design this WW2 poster:

ww2 poster

I had a lot of ideas running through my head when I chose this picture. This has never happened to me before. Normally, an idea pops into my head and I have to write it down before I lose it. So this was a nice change.

To start, I opened GIMP and uploaded my picture that I got here from Flickr. I tested out the different ideas in my head, but none of them went how I was picturing it. {I wanted to promote DS 106 Boot Camp, but that had already been done and I wanted to come up with a new, fresh idea} After about an hour later, it brings me great pleasure to give you my finished product:

ww2 posterFINAL

I matched the colors {as best as I could} and tried to make the words look “vintage” but GIMP is not like Instagram. I wish I could post all of the posters promoting DS106 from current and past DSers on EagleNet so people can see it when they sign up for classes. I mean really, how cool would that be??

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