Donate Life Design

This project was for the maine Donate Life Design competition. The point of the piece is to try to encourage teenagers to consider becoming organ and tissue donors. I was tasked with comming up with a catchphrase that would catch somebody's eye. I love film photography so I chose to use that as the inspiration.

To create this work, I used many materials. I used cut paper for the camera outline, colored pencils for the camera body, watered down acrylic for the flash, acrylic for the film sprockets, brown and gray acrylic for the film texture, and Micron and gel pen for the lettering. 

I stated by drawing my film camera on a piece of black paper. I then cut it out and glued it to the final piece. I splattered watered down acrylic to create the flash. I chose to do this instead of something more obvious because I like a little bit of abstraction. I tried to make a slight emulation of aged film on the paper bu dabbing acrylic on it. On top of that I added the lettering which I did in a silent movie-like font. Finally I cut out the sprockets and then cut out the entire frame. The finishing touch was adding a layer of acrylic varnish to give it a plastic like look (like film). I mounted the cut out frame on another piece of paper so as to make it look like a separate piece, like a negative glued to something.