What Heroin Sounds Like Posters

Project Specs

Date:

August - October 2017

Course:

What Heroin Sounds Like Grant Project

Software:

Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Medium:

Pen, Paper, Digital

Description:

As part of an ongoing social activism project, What Heroin Sounds Like, I created a set of illustrations and posters based around poetry written by one of the victims of the ongoing heroin and opioid epidemic currently sweeping across the United States.

Project Visuals

The first of three posters that made up the final composition. The handwriting on the posters is from the original poem written by Dawn Meyers, who died of a heroin overdose in 2015. The poem was scanned into the computer where I used photoshop to cut it apart and arrange it in the composition.

The second of three posters that made up the final composition.

The final of three posters that made up the final composition.

How the posters work together to form the final composition.

A progress picture of the flower girl illustration used on the posters.

A progress picture of the flower girl illustration nearing it's completion.

The flower girl illustration after being inked, scanned, and cleaned up in Adobe Photoshop.

The original layout of the single poster concept, this was created without knowing I'd have access to the original poems.

What Heroin Sounds Like

The main purposes of this project are to raise awareness of the current heroin epidemic within the United States, end negative stigma’s relating to heroin usage, and to build a community of support for those who’ve lost family to this epidemic. The end goal of this project is to hopefully build a template that other colleges/communities can use to combat the heroin epidemic in their own area.

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