WPA Poster

This project in my Illustration class, aka Art 210, we did a modern day WPA poster project. During the USA’s last big economic troubles, the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project employed thousands of artists to communicate the government’s hopeful outlook to the citizens. WPA posters were posted in stores, bus stops, public offices to tell people, “Things will get better. Here’s how to help!” The point of our posters are to be to raise awareness about a subject. We had to have some characteristics of the older posters, whether it was the typeface, or color pallet. I chose to do my poster on smoking, and deaths per year as a result of smoking cigarettes.