Technique
- Photography - black and white - full colour
- Paintings - oils on canvas - ordinary paints (nose art)
- Printed - postcards - calendars - magazines
- Physical (not digital) - posters - magazines - calendars - postcards
- Typography - script - serif - blocky - heavy weighted
Content
- Photography - Black and white - full colour - magazines, esquire, Playboy - actresses - models
- Illustrations - oil on canvas - normal paints
- Paintings - "nose art"
- Advertisements - Coca Cola - theatres - events - posters
- Colours - reds - yellows - white, purity - blue
- Symbols - happiness - teasing - dice and playing cards, nose art, lucky - lust/love - innocent, purity
Communication
- Predominantly shows females
- Aimed at men - workers - soldiers
- Not minimal - bold - colourful - complex imagery
- Aimed at lower classes - soldiers lower class - more provocative
Research/Analysis
- Magazine covers - present day - 40's/50's
- Calendar designs/layout - composition - elements
- How to paint/draw/photograph pin-up girls - Gillette Elvgren - Alberto Vargas - medias/mediums - techniques - methods
Exploration/Evaluation (of how to make adverts/images, to experiment techniques/styles)
- Magazine cover composition
- Calendar composition
- Typefaces
- Colour palette - matches present day or 40/50's
Testing (How you know one idea over another is valid and that this validity is correct, test on people)
- Critiques
- Place magazine cover or calendar against modern day existing versions and get people to guess which one is out of place - evaluate differences
- Poll
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