Poster Ideas for Felicity

Hi Felicity,

Just getting back to you with some preliminary ideas for the poster. I have come up with 4 ideas for the general conceptual framework. These are by no means fixed or rendered in any finished manner and are just a starting off points. In consideration of the site for the poster (Family First territory or around the Family Association) I think that a poster that leads the audience to the ‘Love Makes a Family’ website might be an interesting strategy. Innocuous image that leads them to some family friendly homo-loving.

I primarily focused on the phrase ‘Love Makes a Family’ and couldn’t get the free-loving aspect out of my head and that’s the rationalisation behind the lava-lamp, potentially psychedelic love heart wall paper – think red, yellow brown. But by the far the more graphic and I think more successful option is the fold out people chain. I loved the idea when you relayed it to me in our meeting because it proposes an endless and extended community as family. It also can represent LGBTI relationships in a really succinct and diverse manner. The potential problems are: representation of gender gets confined to a sort of stereotype – although I have tried to counter this problem with different types of clothing and angles for body features and those scribbles on the heads are attempts to add further diversity via hairstyle; the fact the lines are mixed gender/sex might suggest a watering down of the issue (but within those lines there are same-sex attracted pairs or trios) and finally it might be too oblique.

It would be great to get some feedback – brief and blunt will do. Either on the blog (with-out.blogspot.com or more privately via email is all fine.) I understand it’s Summer and there’s a lot of relaxing that needs doing.

Hope things are going well.

Best,

Spiros