RAF Poster Series

I had the idea to create a poster based on a map of Germany with the dates, locations and victim(s) of lethal RAF attacks marked on it.

I found an image I was happy to use, overlaid it onto a marked map so I could see the locations, and added labelled markers everywhere there had been an attack.

This combined with the main text made up the first poster.

The second poster was largely a cleaned up improved version of the first, but still no specific idea of what it was.

The third was a very slight variation on the second. I altered the main text to give the poster a more targeted message rather than being passively observational, which then inspired the ideas for the fourth and fifth posters.

The fourth poster I created was styled as an election campaign poster. The party I used was the CDU, Germany's dominant right wing party. I removed the dates of the attacks to give the poster a contemporary feel, re-envisioning the RAF as an ongoing threat. I altered the text again so that the first thing you read on a party's campaign poster isn't '37 DEAD' - which I thought might not be the best first impression. I also removed the part about their ideology; while this is a fascinating dimension to me I thought it could come across as the CDU opposing equality and pacifism - again not the best look.

This was the last poster I created. Moving in a similar direction as the CDU poster, I used the logo and details of the BfV (Germany's domestic intelligence agency to create something in the style of an anti-terrorism PSA poster.

I'm not entirely happy with any of the posters I created, but that doesn't bother me that much because I can definitely see the progression with between them, each one is better than the last; more refined and with a stronger idea guiding it.