Monday, 1 October 2012

Ideas


The first idea I've had so far is to combine my previously researched area of War Bonds/Liberty Bonds with the Social Media of LinkedIn. My main thinking behind this is that LinkedIn is seen as the social network of choice for business and economic interaction, which I think ties in nicely with how the posters are raising awareness for the economic needs of a country at war. I think that the way LinkedIn centres around career and business exchanges can be seen as its defining aspect, making it a good starting point for my development. 

The above picture was another one I found that I really liked the style of. In particular I like the way fairly detailed painting has been combined with large areas of block colour to help emphasise certain parts of the poster. I also really like the very stylistic painting style on the far left because of the very simplified colour palette, which unifies the different fields of industry and general war effort.


Sadly I couldn't find anything about the particular artist who designed it other than the printing office it came from and that it was introduced in 1942, which coincides with the First (seriesE) War Bond Drive of the Second World War.

The image below is one I really liked because the way it also combines relatively detailed painting with block colour and typography. It also has a very similar colour scheme to the first image which I will most likely end up using in my final piece. This poster was designed by Adolph Treidler and displayed from 1945.