I followed up the previous propaganda poster by staging my own living room to include various consumer products. I wanted to make the same commentary on American contemporary consumerism, so I kept the original first line of text "'Tis The Season" to set up the idea that obsessive consumption occurs every year and cannot be avoided. Various objects are labelled with plain white text around the image to objectify, to abstract, and to subtly express the idea that these objects hold no hierarchal importance and are just "stuff". The word "consumption" finishes the phrase but is enlarged and washed out into the image to embed itself throughout the living space, the white text, and the entire schema that surrounds the holiday season.

This was my original idea for a propaganda poster commenting on contemporary American consumerist culture. The black bars on the top and bottom are sandwiching a vectorized image taken from a 1950's style christmas ad in order to "trap" the image between the text. I chose to vectorize this image in order to "flatten" the aesthetic and remove it from its context in order to keep the message timeless. In this way, the image of a traditional American Christmas is embedded into the commentary, much in the same way that Christmas is embedded into our consumerist culture that encourages spending and buying more and newer products year after year.  

This untitled triptych is comprised of the characters 4, N, and 7 altered in Adobe Illustrator. Other shapes were added using the Pen and Paintbrush Tool. These initial symbols carry no significance to the final triptych which is supposed to be an entirely aesthetic composition. Each of the three sections is supposed to contrast the square next to it and is unified only by the dots scattered throughout. Each box contains a different color of dots. This was supposed to be subtle and for visual intrigue.