A lot of the posters designed in WW2 were to warn people to always carry their gas masks with them and to take precautions during blackouts. When thinking about the end of the war and people celebrating their freedom I thought about the changes they had to make throughout the war and things that would go back to normal almost instantly. I looked into the blackout and how it was an essential part of keeping people safe and reducing the risk of places being bombed. However with the blackout brought a risk to peoples safety especially those who had to be outside at night or those walking home from work late. I think this is one of the most crucial things to change after the war, the freedom to have lights on at any time of day.
I chose this poster to look at and experiment with because I liked the simplicity of it and minimalistic colour, it's very straight to the point and easy to understand. I wanted to layer up the design and over complicate it to represent the end of the blackout and the end of danger. I did the same thing through collage and digitally.
I chose this poster to experiment with as I like the typography in the title. I decided to take it and photocopy it multiple times over the top of each other.
Whilst searching for posters I came across this image of a sign letting people know the time of the blackout. I chose to focus on the clock in this image and repeat it into making a pattern for a screen print design.
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