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Our group decided to base our theme to be about pollution and ecological environmental protection. We wanted to show this through photography and using design software to create posters. All four of the group members are in different countries with very different time zones. We ended up getting in touch through WeChat as it was the social media everyone had access to. The implication of this was that when other members of the group were awake it was bedtime for the rest of the members but we managed to work through these implications. We each decided to create one poster each.

This poster created by Songlin Du was based around forest protection and he chose to trigger the theme in the most concise way for images. He is clinging to a green leaf in his hands. It is a call for people to reach out and protect the forest with everyone's own strength. In colour, Songlin highlights the green and saturate all the rest of the colour. Let them create a contrast that brings out the vitality of the leaves and green will also bring a sense of comfort to people. The background uses the simplest flat surface, which does not give the impression of chaos. In terms of text, "The Forest" in the title also uses green text, symbolizing a kind of vitality. The title is also a very direct call to everyone to start protecting the forest now. The other text is an action word from the first person, giving people a sense of substitution and picture, strengthening people's beliefs and achieving the purpose of designing posters.

This poster was created By Suwan Wijetunge, the theme around this poster was water pollution. This image was captured when he saw plastic flowing through the university pond. Plastic has been a major problem of water pollution, especially for water animals. The university has ducks in the ponds and these plastics could hurt them, they could get tangled up in them and even swallow small pieces of plastic that are harmful to them. Suwan uses blue colour in his text to keep it with the water theme. He also added some animated stickers to make the poster unique and send out powerful messages. "Pure water runs life" is meant to show that clean water keeps sea creatures safe and us. The stop pollution animation symbolizes the best solution is already within our grasp we just have to execute it. Also, he uses animated arrows to show the numerous animals that die each year because of water pollution. The arrows are used as an eye-catching way to grab the viewer's focus onto the text. He also added black spots to show more pollution in the water. As well as edited the water using colour grading to make it look dirtier. Using animated stickers was a unique way that would make the viewer focus on the poster more as it's not something that's frequently used in posters. Therefore Suwan felt including animated stickers in his poster would be a good idea.

This poster was created by Tianqi Hu about environmental protection. The content of this poster is to appeal to people don’t throw hazardous waste. The main part of the poster is a sprouting seedling. Above it are two abandoned batteries. The seedling has begun to wither due to the pollution of the battery, which shows the damage of the battery to the land. Analyzing this poster from the perspective of colour, there are not too many colours in this poster. The green and yellow leaves and dark blue batteries form a sharp contrast with the dark red land. It can better highlight the main part of the poster. The use of white text in the poster is more conspicuous, clearly telling people the harm caused by batteries to the land and hopes that people will not drop hazardous waste, and also directly expresses the theme of this poster. Damaging the environment, especially plants which could grow into trees that grow food and provide oxygen and stabilise the soil so that landslides don't occur it wouldn't be good for mankind as we lose a lot of benefits.

This poster was created by Xinyu Chen. The picture has a clear symbolic meaning. The photograph is taken on a grassland. In the picture, a McDonald's cup can be seen in the middle of the plants. The plants can be seen as a part of nature, while the paper cup can be seen as a human artifact that was made from plant-based materials and then returned to the embracement of plants. It was a funeral of the cup. The symbolic meaning behind the picture is that nature is mother to everything that we have and we will eventually get back to nature.