Poster – “I Want My Life Back” Series 1 (2010)

June 6th, 2010

A few days ago, my girlfriend and I were on our way back from dinner when the conversation turned into a discussion of what was going on with the BP Oil Spill. I mentioned to her that I would like to do a poster showing my displeasure with BP and the entire situation. When we got home from dinner, my girlfriend went online and found some horrific photographs of all the birds covered in oil. We watched a video of Anderson Cooper down in Louisiana and he was talking about how the CEO of BP, Tony Hayward, said “I Want My Life Back” and that is when a light bulb went off.

My concept would be to take the CEO’s statement and flip it around so that his statement, “I Want My Life Back”, would be coming from the animals that are being effected by the oil spill.

My girlfriend also found Greenpeace’s Behind the Logo competition, where they are asking people to rebrand BP. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to create some posters and enter the piece in the competition in hopes of helping Greenpeace and their fight against BP.

The posters are 35″ x 35″ with Hershey’s Chocolate Syrup applied to them to look like oil. At this moment, their are 9 different designs, but I have only included 4 photos that show each piece shortly after the syrup was applied.

I will be posting more throughout the week.

This is the Worst Human-Made Environmental Disaster, please take the time to educate yourself on the disaster and use your voice to speak out.

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