A New Homeland Security Terror Alert Graphic?
In a move to assure the American people that it can prioritize its workload with all the grace of a monkey banging on a type writer; Congress recently decided to draw its attention away from real problems and focus on making a change to something that I’m sure has been bugging many of us: The Homeland Security Terror Alert Graphic.
The system was created by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 3, six months after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, to provide a “comprehensive and effective means to disseminate information regarding the risk of terrorist acts to Federal, State, and local authorities and to the American people.” It’s basically the Crayola Crayon Color Chart for American Populace Freak Out. I can understand, to an extent, why Congress would want to ratify this visual metric of American Security so I have decided to help them out in their design process. I have combed the internet in search of design alterations to The Homeland Security Terror Alert System in order to give Congress a look at all of the options available.
Some of the ones I found were hyperbolic in both color scheme and warning convention.
Some of them reflected the pop-culture sensibilities of our modern world
And for reasons I have to been unable to discern; one of them revolved around hot dogs.
And while each of these designs has merit I think that they may still be overly complicated and in some cases confusing. I believe that any infographic used to alert the American public to possible danger should be both simple and to the point. Which is why I’ve designed my own version that I’ll be sending off to my Congressman/woman/cymbal banging monkey as soon as this post hits the internet.
Following this land mark decision Congress has promised that it will appoint a $14million dollar committee to review and revise the kids menu at Denny’s to include more pictures, a wider selection of food choices and, according to one Congressman who wanted to remain nameless, “A maze that doesn’t take an hour and a half to finish, causing me to lose all my concentration and spill my ‘moons over my hammy’ all over my lap.”
Travis
thank god they’re in charge
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