W. Orbital Laser Beam Propaganda Poster
So unfortunately, life has gotten busy and crazy again as did the last. I ended up having to take a hiatus from arts for a bit but I'm now back to tinkering and making some fun things. My office job took away my remote work and more life events have happened, as they do for all of us.
In my anti-corporate "rage" I started to make some silly propaganda posters that now hang in my cubicle. The above is the first one I did and my return to messing around in Illustrator. For context this is a joke I have with a co-worker that there is a hidden facility under the office building that houses an orbital laser beam cannon thing. With that, there are "W.O.L.B." agents that protect it and roam the building like the busy bodies they are.
ATOM Labor Propaganda Poster
I started to learn designs of propaganda posters of all sorts just by looking for some examples to put into my own art. Looking at old WWII posters and corporate propaganda circling around. Its been neat to see how they are made and worded as you will see in some other works that I have done so far this year.
The ATOM credit was used from its original creation and modified a bit to be in this poster now. I made this as an allegory to how my job feels with all the changes it has gone though. I used to have a lot more creative freedom and voice before team restructuring. Now it's very bland as I just do my little part day after day without being a hero. I'm just supposed to do my work, don't speak up, and keep going.
Extraordinarily Ordinary Award
Keeping with the corpo-propaganda feel, I created this subpar award poster. The wording took some inspiration from the Fallout games of "hard work is happy work" or the ignorance of worker drones and how the corporations treat folks. Making a subpar score seem like its fantastic.
The real drive behind this one was from the real experience I had with my yearly review at work for 2024. I was told despite doing really well that I was only getting "satisfactory" or a 3/5 across the board. This was to make way for others because of a forced ranking system that HR has. To "fit everyone in the same bucket" is a load of shit honestly. The system there is to motivate, but if I'm doing well and still get a bad score, then why try?
Leaving the World Better Than We Found It Propaganda Poster
If it wasn't clear yet, so far this year has been fueled with disdain for corporations and what they continue to do to working people like myself and for the world we live in. This poster includes a lot of symbolism that I enjoy. On the left side we have tranquility with nature, but also leaving this behind. On the right side we have the harsh reality of industrialization in seemingly the same plot of land. Having this with the "Better Than We Found It" alludes to those folks that find the right side to be more just than what we could have had on the left.
The quote is pretty common to see, but this in particular is fun because it's a direct quote from the CEO I work under. They had said this after recently calling people back into the office, to of course drive cars and waste petrol to do the same job they've been doing fine without commuting. I'm a little more salty about it because I have a commute time of around an hour without traffic.