James Victore Rad Maker Results!

For the assignment I chose three of Victore's posters that interested me, liked the best, could have used to send/communicate a message, etc. I used basically the same subject matter from each of his posters, but with my own twist. In Victore's "Use a Condom" poster he depicts two rabbits mating. However the rabbits are sketched out with a sharpie in a very crude manner and "use a condom" is handwritten inside the image. I photo-realistic condom is placed above the image. I chose to promote a sustainable and fun act that I engage in myself, riding a skateboard. It is basically done in the same style, but I added text about how skateboarding can be fun, healthy and sustainable near the bottom. I also decided to delete the skateboard I had originally placed where the condom was on Victore's poster.

On the second poster that I created I basically appropriated a piece of Victore's as well. He had a poster of Mickey Mouse's head that had been cut off. Inside it said "disney go home." What I did to recreate my own interpretation of it was create another Disney characters head that had been chopped off. I chose Donald Duck. Victore's text was created with tape, so I wrote out what I wanted it to say with actual tape and scanned it in. Underneath the imagery there is a little blurb about Disney that is discriminating towards different races. I wanted the text inside the head to relate to what was underneath the imagery.

On the 500th aniversary of Columbus' arrival to North America, there was a celebration happening on the east coast. in spite of what was happening my artist, created a poster of a native american with a skull-like face drawn over his face. the text on the poster said "celebrate columbus, 1492-1992" What I got from the poster was that Victore was trying bring down the glorified status that comes with certain celebrated figures. So what I tried to create was a poster of a celebrated figure, that really wasnt all he was cracked up to be. I chose Abraham Lincoln, revered for saving the slaves. In reality, he cared not for the slaves, but for ending the civil war. I took a direct quote from lincoln and an image of two slave children juxtaposed with the skull-like face, and text saying "celebrate lincoln, 1861-1865."