RMDBG

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I have a passion for graphic art and often enter into competitions that donate to a issue or cause. The particular design was very personal because it is focused around a campaign called "RMDBG". The acronym stands for "Real Men Don't Buy Girls". The campaign calls attention to issue of the sex trafficking of under aged girls. Due to this issue, one of my biggest personal fears is having a daughter. I fear that a daughter born into the current worlds conditions has so much to face. Issues such as kidnapping, rape, and sex trafficking are very difficult things to have to make a child aware of at a young age, but is required because young women are being faced with prospect of experiencing such things at such a young age.

For this design I incorporated the concept of the eye test that we all undergo at some point in life. I chose this concept to serve in a metaphorical sense. I feel as though we as a people are blind or choose to be blind to certain issues that go on both inside and outside this country. The design was made to essentially say "LOOK" at this issue and be knowledgeable of whats going on whether your actually blind or your vision is 20/20. The second section of the "eye test" reads "freedom" because that too is a theme of the piece. Young girls deserve the right of freedom of their youth and freedom of life in general. At the very bottom of the piece there is a silhouette of little girl with a price tag on her wrist. I chose to do this to show the harsh reality of the issue of sex trafficking of young girls. My hope that seeing a tag on human being hits viewers in a place where the compassion sits and triggers it to take a stand on a very serious issue that in some way touches us all.