The main goal for this project was to learn as much as I could about visual
communication in the way posters were able to capture the masses with propaganda art. Teaching myself graphic design in 2015 to create posters for music festivals, I
realized I was uncovering a special art form. I wanted to further my knowledge of design
and see how it can be utilized today. It wasn’t until I enrolled in language arts classes at
PNCA that I was able to really start piecing reality all together. The final work is a is a
3.6′ × 8.5′ poster of 232 protest posters that are organized into 11 categories, which
correspond to the first 11 integers of the Fibonacci sequence, which connects the chaos
of the past and the chaos of the present.(89) Soldiers, (55) People, (34) Hands, (21)
Weapons, (13) Workers, (8) leaders, (5) Skulls, (3) Statues, (2) Duality, (1) Money, (1)
Earth, and a grounding water droplet that represents the 0 in the sequence. Through
research and design, I have been able to find how the posters of the past can be
repurposed today by meditating on the dangers of oversimplification and trying to give
simple answers to complex questions. I initially thought this piece was going to be
double the size that I created, but I have been able to draw more of a natural context for
this piece that anchors it within reality through the idea of a fractal.