OUGD406 - Flag Designs - British Library Images

OUGD406 - Flag Designs - British Library Images

These images look to represent the stylistic influences from other cultures and world music in some art rock such as the Indian and sitar influences in Beatles albums like Sgt Pepper’s. The colours featured in the image of the Indian man with the sitar are meant to be bright and psychedelic, orange was chosen to represent the lyric -‘With tangerine trees and marmalade skies’ -  from the Beatles’ song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. 

This second image again captures stylistic influences in art rock, this time from asian culture which can be seen in John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s work. The figures appear in a block colour on a black background as a visual reference tom Andy Warhol’s work. 

This multiple layered image takes classic etchings which are romantic in nature to represent the more poetic complexity of some art rock songs. This is visualised very successfully by the image of the man climbing up the wall with a guitar on his back to pass a rose up to a woman. Red is used to evoke this romantic theme and blue is used as a second colour to create a contrast because it is also a primary colour. 

This design takes inspiration from a researched fact about how John Lennon wrote the song Good Morning, Good Morning after watching a cornflakes advert which sang the titular words. The classic cornflakes box is almost parodied here, with the green cockerel substituted for an etched image of a tropical almost prehistoric bird, and a scripture typeface similar to that used for the Kellog’s logo used for the words ‘Good Morning’. 

Ultimately as an idea, this cornflake design is the most refined as it directly links to research and more effectively represents art rock as a whole, instead of certain aspects which the first 2 flag designs do. In further developing ideas, this cornflakes design and the subsequent design with the roses could be visually developed more; the rose design was identified as being successful in a group critique however the colours don’t sit right especially on a white background. The black and orange colour scheme of the first design works well and matches the tone of art rock so this could be experimented with for both designs. Also the general layout of the cornflake design could be developed and adapted as well as the colour; changing the scale of both the type and image as well as their positioning.