Guardian Political Poster

Over the last few days I've been working on a political poster for a Guardian competition aimed at art students. It was a relatively simply brief that was quite open in the respect that all was asked was for an election poster to be made that was in the same vein as the anti-Labour posters of the past.


I initially went with an idea of highlighting several of the Tory elite (Cameron, Osbourne and Boris Johnson) from their Bullingdon Club days, however I thought that was too silly and wouldn't work very well as an election poster. I created these images using watercolour and found that I quite enjoyed doing so.



I chose to use watercolour again for my second attempt at a poster. This time I decided to go darker, much darker by likening David Cameron to Hitler. Hitler believed that he needed to find a 'final solution to the Jewish problem'. Using this phrase I spun it around to reflect the working classes instead.

I am rather happy with the final outcome for this but feel that perhaps I could have found a way to merge the digital and hand made aspects of the poster more effectively.

On a side note, I didn't receive an email notification for this entry just a thanks from the website which was a bit odd.