This week I enjoyed our lecturer slides because there was discussion about images without typography that made you feel something and understand what the image is trying to say without words – the example given was a poster of a wedding ring box, but the ring was actually handcuffs underneath the box. For our exercise in class we had a similar game to Pictionary, except we had to draw 10 posters based on a word we were given – I got band-aid, explosion and pig.

After doing my sketches there were a couple images I liked, but the one that stood out to me was an image of someone putting money into a piggy bank and another arm reaching from the bottom and catching the money coming through the bottom. In my research of inequality I found that there was some discussion of how most of the banks in NZ are run by Australian companies – meaning that we're spending money on our banks in New Zealand but that money isn't being taxed in New Zealand and isn't creating as many New Zealand jobs. This sounded like some form of inequality to me, so I went for it. One interesting stat I found was that Australian banks make $580,000 per hour in New Zealand – which is multiple people's salaries. If that money was invested back into New Zealand (in an ideal world where the government works and all of the money from a bank doesn't go straight to the top) there might be less inequality.

I played with the idea of an alternate title "while you count pennies, he's counting maybachs" – emphasizing how when you're spending your money at the bank, the money just travels up the chain and makes the rich dude richer, but as I said in my previous post I want my posters to not seem so gloomy and hopeless but offer an alternative – such as switching to an NZ back. It might not stop the rich dude getting richer – maybe nothing will – but it'll give back to our economy and provide NZ with more jobs. That sounds like a win to me, so that's what I decided on.

My process:

Final poster: