Today’s posters differ, and many rely solely on typography and shapes. I loved the detailed ones, where an illustrator painted the poster, because that added more clarity to the image. I decided to try to bring that vibe back, taking inspiration from the posters and poster cards from America in the 1920s, and to create a poster series about the present day and the changing world. So here is my participant case study for the Contra x Recraft Challenge.

There were several of the suggested web resources reference could be taken from. The most useful for me were NYPL Digital Collection and Städel Museum. Firstly, I added all the art I found attractive.

The biggest finding for me was the Collins poster cards series designed by various painters. Collier's was a popular American journal; it was printed and edited from 1888 to 1957.

I tried all my ideas to have fun with illustration and composition, which wasn't so obvious for the original illustration style. A combination of modern photoshoot techniques like Whip-pan and old crafted art could look artistic on the canvas.

Below are some images and storyboards I used for further generations of the image compositions. I got to know that 3x3 is the best choice to show all the angles of an object.

In total, I generated more than 100 images and picked 8 of them as the Final result that I can preview. I used Recraft V4.1 Pro and the Pro Style version for all of them. I picked the best of the works and placed them below.

Here are some images with the media and information overload that we couldn't get 100 years ago. The ad changed, and people's communication as well; one device controlling the whole network would be a nice buff for humankind.

This work explores the potential relationship between a middle-class American worker from the 1910s and the present world. As it rapidly changes, millions of people couldn't keep up with this pace and fell out of the trend. One day we could become like them in this series; current IT employees won't be able to keep up with all the info, and this century's breakthroughs will make them late and old.