two posters that my group and I made during one of the workshops earlier. The task was to create two posters according to the emergency situations given. We chose to do our posters about the water in the Fukushima nuclear plant that was damaged during the tsunami. The article and our research said that the water that was supposed to be cooling down the nuclear plant has been at a very low level and the temperature of the whole nuclear plant has gone up to 50 degrees and more. We chose the Japanese people to be our audience, because it's a situation that is mostly of an interest for them and therefore used symbols and signs that were connected to the Japanese culture.
For the red poster we chose the Japanese war flag as the main symbol, along with lots of kanji signs that mean water in Japanese (水 - mizu) that were just above the middle line of the red circle, showing that there is NOT enough water. The letters above said Fukushima in Japanese alphabet (ふくしま）and 50 celsius with an arrow pointing up to indicate that the temperature is rising. The war flag was chosen for its meaning in terms of fighting, as well as the rays being an allusion to the radioactive rays.
The other posted had the same writing of Fukushima (ふくしま) and the temperature up with the water (水) sign being overthrown by a wave from a famous Hokusai's painting that was also a little bit changed by putting a very common Japanese origami paper pattern into it, to have an allusion again to the radioactive rays.
I think both of the posters work quite well showing the danger and informing the people of what is happening. For a non-Japanese it might be hard to understand, but since we were aiming for the Japanese audience, I think the posters do convey the message. The other groups also did a good job:
Pictures by Heymon Wong
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