Sans Cursive

The poster below entitled, "Sans Cursive," was designed by Cristina Vanko, student at Indiana University.  The poster was created for a campaign to support retaining cursive handwriting in the educational curriculum, as printed in issue #53 of CMYK.  The chalkboard backgrounds and white-chalk lettering represents the elementary classroom.  The bright pink color as the tips of the erasers brings attention to the piece and highlights key information.  It is also interesting that the artist uses several different styles of cursive script, some are thick lines, some are thin.  Some of the cursive lettering is very elaborate and decorative, other lettering is simple and clean, like the letters learned in school.  I really like the lower left-hand box because of the lines with dashes, just like elementary school writing paper.  Then, it states that "cursive will be replaced by the key" with the last three words as letters on a keyboard.  Very good use of imagery.  The poster is clearly a call to action.  The action words in the lower right-hand box are all in cursive, emphasizing the writing style.  I also liked how the artist included the pencils in the lower middle box as if someone just finished writing on the board.