Friday, March 20, 2015

A Bad Girl: The Satirical Poster That Stands Up for Women in India

A group of design students at Bangalore’s Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, created a satirical poster mimicking the well-known and classic Indian poster “An Ideal Boy”, a poster aimed towards schoolchildren, as an consequence of politicians and influential individuals blaming female victims for getting assaulted.


Alison Byres, who has been teaching students at Srishti visual culture for the past six years, said that in that period, she's seen the conversation shift "from being an ideal boy to a bad girl."


"It seems like there’s nothing you can do to be the perfect girl because being a girl itself appears to be the problem," Ms. Byres, who assigned the theme for the project, said.


The poster named "A Bad Girl" consists of 12 illustrations with a woman carrying out one “bad” habit:


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