After the extra research, and the absolutely STAGGERING statistics I found, I decided to go with the military spending vs. education spending and see how far I can get with it. So this is the first design I came up with. Much more simplified and just tried to focus on the world of money and the few falling coins.

With this one I went back to one of my older versions, the green&red one that I had signed off on account that the colour scheme was too military….and basically brought that back since now it was much more appropriate. But, I just got the idea of really blowing up the coin world image and have that off the page on the top and the few falling coins at the bottom and type inbetween.

Here’s one approach to my experiment…

Doesn’t quite work I think….though the individual falling coins are better then the grouped ones….they provide a better visual arrow towards the education spending stat. Maybe try having the coin globe a little smaller so exactly half is cut off of the page.

In the next version of the piece above, I added more text, because the way it is now it isn’t strong enough, it’s just stating a fact….it needs to campaign change! So due to the extra text the layout didn’t work anymore so I decided to work around the image of an exclamation mark + the coin earth….

Further development on this….I didn’t think the font was working anymore….wanted to try something more serious and perhaps bring back the black background.

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