No Más Bebés

My task was to advertise the screening of No Más Bebés, a documentary that addresses cases of reproductive injustice towards Mexican immigrants in the US in the 1970s. As an hispanic designing the poster, I thought it would be appropriate to rely solely on the creative talent of hispanic type foundries for all text in these posters, in a sense uniting the people of Latin America and South America with the Mexican immigrants suffering from injustice. All fonts used on these posters were designed by Latinotype and Type Together. The vibrant color palette and the solid but varying line widths in the illustration are inspired by Mexican art. In the first one, dark brown is used instead of black to add warmth to the image and achieve a more visually pleasing contrast against red and green. The second poster I designed several months later as a revisitation to the problem. I realized that the visual metaphor of the womb and the pear might not have been the strongest image, so instead I did some more research on old cultural symbols for fertility in Latino cultures and discovered Kokopelli. Kokopelli is found all over Southwestern United States in addition to Latin America. He's represented as a guy playing a trumpet-like instrument. Training myself to see the negative space, I saw a face in the negative space of his form. With the addition of a tear, it raised the questions and had the impact I was looking for.