Don't eat your feed

Communication Design
Project Overview
For this project we were challenged to make an infographic about obesity. After watching a SIC news report on the subject, I decided to focus on how TV and its advertisements influence what children want to eat. There are several studies on the subject, but I got all my information from the APA (American Psychological Association), in their article “The impact of food advertising on childhood obesity”. In this article they introduce how children under the age of 6 cannot distinguish between programs and advertisements. Children under 8 don’t realize how manipulative the advertisements are. The parents of these children want to please their children, and end up buying the products often without reading the nutrition label. My target audience is the parents of these children. The purpose is to teach them the malignant effects of these advertisements. It also serves to warn that what is on the package is often a distorted truth, and that it's important to teach children to discern what is advertising and what is truth from an early age.
Don't eat your feed is about how often the foods pictured in the advertisement are not even real. An example of this would be how they make pictures of cereal - they use glue instead of milk, to make the product appear fresh for longer.

Orange is considered one of the colors that increases the appetite, together with yellow and red. I decided on a small color pan, adding only the complementary color of orange, a blue, dark in this case. The TV is represented in a retro way because its shape in iconography is more understandable. The typography was influenced by this. I chose one that would have the same melancholy feeling as the TV and be super bold, which has to do with the obesity theme. Underneath the main title is the subtitle “how advertising is influencing our eating habits”.I chose a different font not only to make it easier to read, but also because it is less flashy, like the food labels next to the main advertisement. When you open the pamphlet, the first thing you see is part of the title again, the text, part of the TV, and several sentences. These are of my own making, and I have placed them in such a way to represent an advertisement, but with phrases encouraging good nutrition, rather than misleading half-truths.

ESAD
UC Projeto II
Academic Project
Professor Margarida Azevedo
Design by Luísa Cruz Marques