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Graphic Design Students Create Power Plant Protest Posters

Palomar College student are tasked with considering an issue and selling their opinion graphically.

Students in a Digital Concepts graphic design class at Palomar College were recently given an assignment that led to the creation of a dozen posters on the subject of the proposed Quail Brush Power Plant, most of them expressing opposition to the plant.

The students were instructed to design a poster that utilizes a typographic solution and an illustration that communicates clearly. The course instructor is involved with Stop the Santee Power Plant, the locally organized effort in opposition to the plant. He said he informed the students about the issue and gave them the assignment to create a poster in support of the plant or against.

One student chose a design in support of the plant, but the posters were predominantly opposed to the plant, showing illustrations of smoke stacks, and themes including the "cost of power," the proximity to and , and potential air toxins that could be emitted.

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