The International Day Of Peace Logo

Context

Peace is generally the opposite of war. Peace can be a state of harmony or the absence of hostility. "Peace" is used to describe the cessation of violent conflict. Peace can mean a state of quiet or tranquility — an absence of disturbance or agitation. Peace can also describe a relationship between any people characterized by respect, justice, and goodwill. Peace can describe calm, serenity, and silence. This latter understanding of peace can also pertain to an individual's sense of himself or herself, as to be "at peace" with one's own mind.

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Actual Meaning

The International Day of Peace is on September 21st of each year and calls for a full day of peace and ceasefire throughout the world.
The United Nations passed a resolution in 1981 declaring an International Day of Peace to coincide with opening of its General Assembly each year. In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new resolution that declared 21 September of each year as the International Day of Peace (PDF).
The resolution: "Declares that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Day . . .Invites all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, and non-governmental organizations and individuals to commemorate, in an appropriate manner, the International Day of Peace, including through education and public awareness, and to cooperate with the United Nations in the establishment of the global ceasefire.

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What this piece means to me

As this piece was created as a representation for the what the day is supposed to mean Peace. In my opinion the Doves within this image are to show Peace and Purity because that is what Doves represent to the majority of people.

Materials:

Although there is no reference to confirm this I think it was created digitally either using Photoshop or Illustrator. In my opinion the materials used help to convey meaning because you can dramatise like the image on above on the right is a edited version of the image on the left. I think the image on the right communicates piece because rather than using a the world it uses a map like the United Nations which aim is to make Peace.

Overall Judgement:




My Response

Meaning:

I wanted to use various aspects that symbolise peace at the same time I wanted to make it different to the images I found above. As the original images are for the international day of peace I wanted to create a new logo for it using certain aspects that they did.

Materials:
I created this image digitally purely on Photoshop by changing the contrast and saturation of the different aspects of the image. I used black on the background as I wanted everything to stand out although I feel it would have worked just as well on a white background.

Overall Judgement:
As a piece in my opinion i think it works well and the colours used are calm and peaceful which helps to show the meaning of image. In comparision with the logos i found i feel that although the layouts are completly different they do show the same meaning but prehaps in a totally different perspective.