Why did you choose the message you chose?  How is this message important? How did you come up with your design?

I chose the message, “Stop bullying, before it kills someone” because I wanted to create a poster that got people’s attention right away.  I put a DO NOT sign over the hand to symbolize, “stop bullying”.  I also used an image of a girl who committ suicide.  I wanted to display on my poster about the reality of bullying and what it can do to people, which I have shown is death.  I wanted people to notice my poster because I am telling the public that we need to stop bullying because it hurts people many ways. This message is important because I want to let people know that kids are seriously affected by bullying so much, that many of them committ suicide to stop the suffering.  I want to show the consequences of what bullying can do to a victim who has suffered so much of it.  In the poster, I used very dark colours to represent bullying.  I used black to represent suffering and red to symbolize blood and anger.  I came up with this whole idea of this poster when I heard about a story where a girl committ suicide because she was always bullied at school.  She couldn’t handle it anymore, so she killed herself.  I used this story to create my poster and let the public know this happens and that we as human beings can take a step into preventing this type of situation from happening. 

Questions & Answers

1.   What does your logo/ tattoo represent?
            My logo basically represents my nickname, “Geethi” that everyone usually calls me instead of my full name. Also, I have my last name “Sehgal” in my logo.  I wanted to have my name as my logo because I want to represent my “creative identity” and make my logo more recognizable and easy to remember when people look at it.

2.   How did you design your logo/ tattoo to represent this?
           I designed my logo by having an arrow point at my name to make it look like my name is of great importance.  I created my intials G.S. by using the pen tool. I just wanted to add a touch of my own creativity and make this my own design.  I made the rest of my name using small letters to create that clean organized by having it in a staright line.  I made some of the of the letters in capital letters and reduced the font to show my own way of writing my name.  At the end, I put a star to show that this logo is important and has great value. It’s just like when you put a star beside important information or something you need to remember.  I incorporated that into the logo to show the same reason.