Black lives Matter

As designers, we need to discuss and highlight the problems we face in our communities today. My poem “Black Lives Matter” is mainly about the issue that happened in July, 2020.

“They say that all lives matter, but in fact, nothing matters

When he said I can’t breathe, no one hears, no one listens, no one cares

I can’t BREATHE

I need to breathe freedom

I need to breathe Justice

I need to breathe equality and equity

I need to breathe love and empathy

Black lives matter because the “land of the free” matters”

I created this poster using this poem to promote diversity, equality, and inclusion, and to engage audiences with it to reach more people. I wanted to represent many different voices, so I wrote a DADA poem using all the dynamic qualities Filippo Marinetti used in his typographic poetry. I enlarged the letters where I needed people to care and repeated words in the background.

I used vertical typography and trademark for the icon of black lives matter. I used red as a metaphor for violence. Moreover, I used the noose to indicate how this problem could choke the peace we have in our society. The Black word and the waves indicate their lives. I chose this background to indicate the duration of this issue. The year’s written numbers indicate similar incidents where black people repeated the same sentence before they died, “I can’t breathe.