Poster design opportunity

Make-It-Click, a project of researchers at EVMS is seeking a graphic design to create a poster series. The overall goal of the project is to increase the seat belt and back seat use of tweens (8-12 year olds). The project is funded by the Department of Transportation, and is taking place in elementary schools in Portsmouth. There are many elements to the project; one of which is to target the parents because we’ve learned from focus groups with the kids that the parents are a big part of the problem.

The designer will need to create 6 posters that depict Black individuals in various car safety-related scenarios. For example, one of the posters will stress the importance of compromise by parents in order to increase the back seat use of their children, and would depict the interior of a car with a mother driving and a tween sitting in the back seat. The tween will be asking his mother to change the radio station to Z104, and the mother will reply “sure.”

The posters can be pictures or illustrations; the research team just doesn’t want it to look like clip art. Also, each poster needs to have two versions: one in color and one in black and white. The black and white versions will be mass-produced by us, so the final product would need to be capable of that (i.e., converted to a computer).

For more information, contact:
Krystall Dunaway, M.S.
Research Associate II
Division of Community Health and Research
Eastern Virginia Medical School
757.668.6451