Information Graphics: Show Racism the Red Card part 1

For the second task of this unit, we were asked to design an A2 poster for "Show Racism the Red Card".

I had a few ideas for this, but the two I narrowed it down to were:

 The idea on the left is a list of racism-related films with the year and country that they were made in.

During the six years I spent at high school, I watched a few of these either on last days of term or just at home. For example, "Schindler's List" was watched for English essays; "The Blind Side" was a last day of term viewing; and "Something New" I watched at home.

It was thinking about "The Blind Side" which gave me this idea, because of the poem "White Walls", and it got me to thinking about how many films there are that involve racism in some way. So I did some research and found a list of these films. I decided to make the text red to fit in with the Red Card part of the task. I also used the Red Card logo.


The idea on the right is an image of a heart-shape made using vein type lines. I was thinking about how the differences between races don't really matter and that we are all part of the human race. I think that is the one race that people don't actually think about when someone says "race" in this context. I wanted to make people think about the race that EVERYONE is part of - the race that connects us all - the human race.


This was an interesting task and it really made me think about the difficulties that some people have accepting that we are all the same.

Please comment on which idea I should use.