This project focused around the prompt of design
12 postcards that illustrate a part of St. Louis.
The project required us to design the postcards,
the packaging and the stamp. The open ended
prompt allowed me to project some of what i had
learned in my Africana studies courses onto this
project. The final product is a depiction of the black
freedom struggles in St. Louis through a series of
events that happen over the curse of 400 years,
The packaging is meant to symbolize the conflict
between white and black people in St. Louis. The
viewer has to physically pull them apart to reveal
the postcards. The postcards are organized in
chronological order and overtime the monochrome
becomes more saturated to intensify the experience
and allude to the accretion history model.
These events do not happen in isolation but build
on top each other making them more complex.
12 postcards that illustrate a part of St. Louis.
The project required us to design the postcards,
the packaging and the stamp. The open ended
prompt allowed me to project some of what i had
learned in my Africana studies courses onto this
project. The final product is a depiction of the black
freedom struggles in St. Louis through a series of
events that happen over the curse of 400 years,
The packaging is meant to symbolize the conflict
between white and black people in St. Louis. The
viewer has to physically pull them apart to reveal
the postcards. The postcards are organized in
chronological order and overtime the monochrome
becomes more saturated to intensify the experience
and allude to the accretion history model.
These events do not happen in isolation but build
on top each other making them more complex.
