Final pop art postcard

The end.

Colour and references

The colour choice for the postcard background and text was difficult again. Originally I went for a classic look, i.e. blacks, greys, boring. This blended in with the modern images too much...

So I decided to lighten it up a bit. I picked the old bicycle for colour inspiration. On my final postcard the background is a cream, and the text is a dull red. it looks goooooood.

A lot of my images (such as the flying man) came from a really inspirational website called DazedDigital.com, see here:

http://dazeddigital.com/Default.aspx

This website is incredible - it's updated every couple of days. There's info on alternative art and culture, photography, music, fashion, and current affairs. A magazine is tied to the website called Dazed & Confused, sold in the UK, and rarely sold here in Australia. It is the most amazing magazine (see dazed and confused magazine cover in my modern day image montage on postcard) It really should be sold here for a good price and at all good magazine selling stores.

Colours, quote and typography troubles

The font used for the Warhol quote...

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

... was difficult to choose.

I went for Helvetica, and used different sizes to co-inside with the ideals of pop art. In retrospect, I should have used different fonts for each word. This would suit the Pop Art theme - Helvetica is a po-mo font. I do like the font, its more like, when in doubt, use Helvetica, and it will work... Bad, bad choice.

The following 50s advertisements shows good use of typography:

Flying man cropped

What a winner!

Concept

Using the modern and olden day images, I cropped them, corrected their size, and placed them into two groups. The modern day images were put into black and white. I changed the contrast levels to suit the image. To portray a sense of 'out with the old and in with the same old, new stuff' I placed my flying tattooed man, the modern day man. He is used as a carrier of the new.

I like his flowing locks.

More modern day images (not all)

Modern day images (some)

Olden day images continued...

Olden day images