Graphic Design Flyer idea for the "Blast to Zang Tumb Tumb" exhibition at the London Design museum

This Exhibition is based on the post Vortism movement and the destruction and horror of the First World War. The image present on the flyer is named "Rock Drill" and was sculpted by Epstein in response to his shock of the huge scale of destruction caused by tanks and machine guns, the new ‘machines of war’. The sculpture became a futuristic symbol of the new age and how technology will destroy us all.

For my design I experimented a great deal with textures such as water colours, newspaper, tea bag staining, acrylics and print to enable the image to look warn out and vintage, as well as giving the entire image a chaotic feel that screamed destruction by using sharp edges and explosions. 

However  researching more into Epstein's view of machines and his idea of how machines themselves where the cause of destruction, I decided to challenge his opinion in my design and add a smaller machine powered by a human attacking the Rock Drill to demonstrate the meaning of human influence in the destruction of the world through machines.

I gave the entire flyer a comic book feel using electric blues and a deep navy blue background with white highlights to focus on the detail and textures within the print as well as creating an atmosphere of darkness and gloom that was felt through the First World War. I made several different designs of this flyer but two stood out to me as being the most effective to demonstrate my opinion on this situation.