“The Power of Creativity”: Part I

"The Power of Creativity I"

I fell in love with Photoshop in college. I had never used it until I took a digital design class, which was essentially a Photoshop course. During that same semester, I took an illustration class where we were challenged to make ten unique posters over ten weeks, but all ten posters had to be inspired by a single poster of our choice. 

The poster that inspired me

The poster I picked as my resource was a blown-up image of a pulp sci-fi magazine from 1929 (pictured here). I was mildly obsessed with this style of retrofuturist art when I first picked it out, but ten weeks later, I had become a full-blown fanatic. 

With my newfound excitement in Photoshop, I created my first retro-inspired digital collage. But what would be the subject of this piece? I had already made a decent number of posters that incorporated the scuba-esc TV heads into them. I needed to focus on the content of the image and develop visuals from that. I meditated on the retrofuturist art poster I was so familiar with at this point, struggling to see a creative theme. That was it! What is it that encapsulates the wild content in this poster: creativity. 

I made the digital collage using visuals from the mid-century that suggest creativity: music, technology, art, and industry, to name a few. Over the years, it has consistently remained my most popular piece, so last year I chose to turn it into a "his & hers" set, making a mirrored feminine counterpart with unique creative elements. The couple is a staple of my collection and beloved by my audience.

The Power of Creativity I

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