Disney Postcards

Between myself, two sisters and my mother there were a good 2,500+ photos taken of this Disney adventure shall we say, so trying to narrow them down to just a few that best represent my summer has been extremely difficult. In the end I've divided my summer into  categories, Disney World in itself the colourful place that it is and my own journey of a summer.

First of all the wonder of Disney:

Main street USA at 7.59am

The cost for some beloved Cadburys at the United Kingdom Pavilion in Epcot 

The level of show Disney World upholds even when renovating

 My Summer:

Mickey's famous high four

All it takes is faith, trust and and little bit of pixie dust

Alice in Wonderland, The character that whether it be guest or cast member got reverenced to me literally every single day  

Of course I've got a lot more photos that represent my summer and Disney World on a whole and I think that it could be such a nice project in itself to print these 30 or so photos (that I've narrowed it down to for each category) as postcards with perhaps a quote on the back explaining each one, and to then present them in a similar box to the penguin postcard box. I think it could be a nice sum up of my summer and own personal journey.

Penguin postcards

During a recent tutorial I was told about these Penguin postcards which is basically a box of postcards and all the designs are the old classic penguin book covers, and I really find them quite cute. The colour and design of them very much remind me of these posters I've been looking at recently and them being postcards sort of link to the travel aspect that my work is starting to become about.












If anything I collect postcards, whenever I go somewhere chances are I'll pick one up, and actually something that I noticed this summer was just how few postcards there were at Disney. You'd think with 4 theme parks and 2 water parks there would be amble of choice for a postcard to send home to your family or friends but there were only a dozen or so for what felt like all or the parks and they seemed really dated, some of them looked as if they'd have been the same postcards 5 or 10 years ago just using the same photo of Mickey and the gang in front of the castle.

Being that my work seems to be becoming about travel and journeys I think it could be interesting to try and collect together some of the photos from perhaps my summer, the ones that best show my own journey so to speak, that could be my postcards that best symbolise my summer.

Hogwarts, It's quicker by rail

Following my research into the 'It's quicker by rail' advertisements I've been playing around with a few of my own ideas and designs for posters, only I've been drawing on my summer in Florida for inspiration. For example I think it would be interesting to advertise Disney World in this style however I thought it could be interesting to advertise somewhere that to me is British it being on American soil.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a newly opened section to the Isles of Adventure theme park in  Orlando, Florida. It's somewhere i've been looking forward to visiting since I heard of it becoming a reality a few years ago, and being in Orlando for a few months I knew that I would visit only just a few times. And as much as I loved the whole set up of going through the gateway into Hogsmeade, seeing the Hogwarts Express with the conductor standing by it's side (who had a very strong Yorkshire accent) and then seeing the Castle in the background was a truly terrific sight, however seeing the fake snow on the roofs of the shops of Hogsmeade in the 30 degree weather I couldn't help but feel that this is a bit surreal.

In my mind Hogwarts is set in the Highlands of Scotland, with the strong winds (which would make the cloaks for sale more appealing) and bitter chills to which a Butterbeer would warm you up in the Three broom sticks rather than cool you down. But I'm not an idiot I no why 'Harry Potter World' is an addition to an existing theme park to keep it more up to date and for guests to keep coming back but it still feels a bit wrong that such a British franchise is in America.

So more for my own amusement I've just done some rough sketches of how Hogwarts and Hogsmeade could be advertised in the 'It's quicker by rail' style (which I think could be very appropriate considering the most well known way of getting to these magical places is by the Hogwarts Express.