This week in class we focused on identifying symbols and turning news articles into a convincing poster that highlights the most important details clearly. In the lecture we saw a couple great examples of posters that make you as the viewer 'hunt' for the meaning behind the poster, which I thought worked very well with the below poster 'Tired' – you feel as you've done something special to uncover the meaning behind the poster which gives you a sense of accomplishment and deeper connection to the poster – at least it did for me.

After our lecture we did another exercise trying to understand the meaning behind symbols and when they're used in conjunction with each other how they can take on other meanings, for example a zig zag looks like a crack when you combine it on top of an image of a castle, which can then have further meaning, of say for instance the British crown collapsing. It was a pretty interesting exercise which made me think out of the box a little more.

Afterwards we did an exercise in teams of two creating a poster about a news article and extracting the important details like headline, sub headline and a fact or stat. For our poster we took the 'curb the housing crisis' literally and showed the housing crisis right at the curb, how people are living in cars on the side of the street. It was an interesting example mostly for being able to identify catchy words and meaningful stats in an article.