Vector Project 1

The three quotes I used for this piece are:

"It's good to trust others, but not to do so is much better"

"The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army is vile"

"Inactivity is death"

All of these quotes come from the Italian dictator of WWII Benito Mussolini.

DISCLAIMER: In no way do I condone Mussolini's actions or who he was in cahoots with. I just find the whole premise of creating a new political ideology (fascism) out of social turmoil to be quite fascinating...

After hearing that this project had a propaganda aspect to it, I sort of took it seriously :-P

My senior thesis last year was all about the art form used as a propaganda tool, and I looked at many different German and Italian propaganda posters. I used that kind of appearance to produce this piece.

Many of the posters I looked at included very vibrant colors, such as red and yellow, as well as astounding contrasts between black and white.

I utilized the banner to create drastic angles and created text using the free distort tool to take form of those angles.

The font I used was American typewriter to get the effect of the mid 1900s text.

After I had put his name at the bottom of this piece, I felt as if there was a huge empty space, so I decided to include his portrait as sort of a trademark.

I'm happy with the outcome and the simplicity of it.