E-waste poster

[cookiePerimetre]

I created an e-waste poster for a school assignment, thought I'd share it here to hear the thoughts of the forum!

[AbydosOne]

33 minutes ago, cookiePerimetre said:

hear the thoughts of the forum!

Do you want critique on a graphic design level or a messaging level?

[Hybris5112]

35 minutes ago, cookiePerimetre said:

I created an e-waste poster for a school assignment, thought I'd share it here to hear the thoughts of the forum!

Pretty good as far as school assignments go. I will admit my first thought was to put a Louis Rossman sheep riding on top of one of the items floating in the green goo, but my humor tends to favor memes and Easter eggs.

[Arika]

Few things.

• Red text of the blue background is hard on the eyes
• The green radioactive sludge and barrel is not e-waste
• Lots of unused space at the bottom
• Add another box that explains what e-waste is and why it's bad.

[divito]

Arika has some good points.

 

And content-wise, I'd be hesitant to say right to repair is currently the "best way" of fixing e-waste. There is definitely a difference between designing/engineering items where repairs are easier for consumers to perform vs. having a secondary market that pushes more toxic and hard-to-recycle items into production that may not ever be utilized; just because someone can open up a device and replace things inside doesn't mean they're all going to do it. 

 

The "best way" to handle e-waste involves several factors, including straight mitigation, research and development of less harmful materials and/or processes, and certain mindset changes among consumers.

 

It'd be more apt to include what e-waste is and why it's a problem as Arika mentioned, but also that right to repair as a movement can be a positive component to delay or eliminate e-waste, not the outright "best way."

[RockSolid1106]

Change the font in "Statistics" and "How to fix it" to something else. You could try Inter here, it would look good on paragraphs.

You can download that font from https://rsms.me/inter/. Once downloaded, extract, then Inter Hinted for Windows > Desktop, Open Settings(Win + i) and search for fonts, here, select the .ttf files you see in the folder you opened, and drag them over to the settings window.

 

As for the background, I personally like darker colors, so I'd recommend #202020(dark-gray) in place of the blue. It looks good with the red and white text.

For the text-boxes, the background could be a #FFB6C1(light pink), and the text black. Of course, that's my color taste, and you may differ. Use what pleases you.

 

 

Made this quickly to show how my changes would look:

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[dalekphalm]

Please do not take offence to my comments - they are critiques for your benefit.

 

Your poster is ugly as sin. It looks really bad. Like something a grade school (like Grade 6 and under) kid created. Now - with that in mind, if you're a grade school kid, then you can proceed to dismiss this if you wish, but I assume you're slightly older, maybe in high school or something.

 

The blue background is just terrible. It's a harsh colour that does not work well with the other colours you've selected. In fact, I think your entire colour palette is poorly chosen.

 

As others have mentioned, the "Radioactive waste" isn't e-waste. Remove that. All it does is confuse the issue, and potentially add to harmful stereotypes about Nuclear Fission based power generation. If you need to add something else, add some other piece of recognizable electronics (a TV or game station, etc).

 

You want a poster that's easy to read, and draws the eyes into a flowing pattern that intuitively makes the eyes read the information in the correct order.

 

Others have given you some good suggestions about the written content - one of them is that Right to Repair is not the solution. It's a potential part of a larger solution. Right to repair is a horrible solution if it ends up promoting manufacturing practices that use toxic pollutants or materials that are very harmful. You need to find a balance between making something easily repairable vs having a proper full life cycle (from manufacturing to disposal). And as others have said, even if you can repair something, many people won't. There needs to be an end-of-life process for devices that aren't repaired.

 

Right to Repair is important, don't get me wrong. But if you're hyperfocused on it, you're missing the larger picture.

 

I'd also suggest being more consistent with the text boxes. Ideally the font size should remain the same, as well as font of course.

 

@RockSolid1106 has an interesting design - definitely an improvement on your original design. Personally, I would go the opposite direction and do a White (or very very light coloured) background). I'd also use more natural hues of color. Example, the green that you've chosen, I assume represents grass? Try a different hue that looks more natural, and a little less harsh. Same goes for the blue - which I assume is supposed to be the sky? Massively lighten that so it's more like bluish-white.

[DANK_AS_gay]

22 hours ago, cookiePerimetre said:

I created an e-waste poster for a school assignment, thought I'd share it here to hear the thoughts of the forum!

 

I would get rid of the nuclear waste thing, I get the idea, but e-waste is nothing like nuclear waste. E-waste is Dell Keyboards, 10 cent mouses (computer mouses are mouses not mice), plastics, PCBs, etc.