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.