Manifesto

A manifesto is a public declaration of policy and aims, we come across them on a daily basis without even realising. They tend to be inspirational and teach us lessons, a lot of the time they are easily related to. They relate to our feelings and views. You see a part of yourself in the text, words and images. A lot of the manifestos we see are more type based, so a change of colour could be used to highlight a word, or the size of text could also be changed. What I found was, in order to make a manifesto effective, its got to make the reader think, maybe even think twice about a situation/belief/issue that they felt so sure about before. Humour is also another effective way of delivering a manifesto, making it more memorable.


Fig. 1 My manifesto poster (author's own)

I decided to go with my passions, these include freedom, trying the new, creating, and most importantly my dream- travelling. I have not yet had the chance to travel much, but one of my biggest goals in life is to be able to travel, I am filled with wanderlust.

I figured that worn out shoes would be a good imagery to use in order to represent travelling, and so I found this image of worn out shoes on google and played around with it on Photoshop filters.The long ripped strip of brown paper is a representation of a pathway, both life choices and literal path- journeys.I placed the shoes on the bottom of the poster because our eyes are used to seeing feet on the floor, I am considering spacing and placement here. The shoes are in a comfortable spot for the viewers' eyes. My words are short and simple, yet effective. It is a play on words and 'wearing' has two means, the first means to literally, physically wear something, the second means to use that item so much that it's nowhere as good as new anymore. I wanted the two meanings to stick to the image, because after all, unharmed shoes have had no fun at all, have they?