2D Computer Illustration #3
For our third assignment we had to completely TRACE the New York City Department of Health's Heimlich Maneuver poster (including text) in Adobe Illustrator. If you can believe it, this poster hangs in every restaurant and eatery in New York City.
When I saw this in the syllabus I considered gouging my eyes out. Staring at this poster is my idea of hell on earth, because I happen to consider this particular poster to be one of the most poorly designed things IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
Does my exact recreation seem a little hard to read? Well TOUGH, because this is how big it looks in real life when it's 12 feet away on the back wall behind the cash register!!! (I've also included the grayscale version, which is even HARDER to read, since a large percentage of the posters are simply photocopied).
SERIOUSLY, can you IMAGINE if someone was CHOKING and you suddenly had to look around for directions on how to save their life and THIS was what you had to aid you???
Hopefully you'd have your MAGNIFYING GLASS on you because the type is so damn small! Plus there is TOO MUCH of it! The colors are totally distracting (and muddy in grayscale) and the figure diagrams are either redundant or unclear!
Look at those red hands! (At the top) "Oh, I should do exactly what you're showing me to do below this? Okay..." (At the bottom) "So if someone starts choking I should slap my left hand against my right fist?" By the time you deciphered this, your "Choking Victim" would be DEAD. Is the New York City Health Department TRYING to kill people????????????
Luckily, our next assignment is to REDESIGN this "poster." Thank god!
8.5" x 11" - Adobe Illustrator - September 2006
