Skate Deck of 1970-1980`s "Skate up to the starry sky"

Final project

 Step 1. My sketch.

Step 2. Whale I traced in Illustrator CS4.

Step 3. A girl (body only) I traced based on Yuehui Tang picture.

Step 4. Stars  I found here http://illustratorvector.net/vector/stars-vector/

Step 5. Font and wrap exploration. I used Keep on Trucking` FW font,which was very popular in `70-80s

Step 6. So I used 6 basic images for my skate deck: whale, girl, city, sky, stars and text

Step 7. Placing my final images on a Deck template. I used horizontal position for my deck.

Step 8 . After printing I adjusted the sticker to the deck

Overall it took me about a week to get this project done (2 days for printing) and 60$ ( 25$ deck with a discount + 35$ for printing in http://www.marcormedia.com/

Concept idea:
The years of 1970-1980`s were the era of the advocacy of world peace, so the whale on the deck symbolizes peace, harmony and rebirth. The growth of feminism found its expression in the image of a girl, the skyline reflects the growing number of skyscrapers. At last, the final collage is not only the symbolization of the fantasy world caused by using LSD and other drugs and interest in the increasing popularity of non-fiction genre, but also it represents freedom of ideas, choice and self - expression, break of the stereotypes, psychological self-knowledge exploration and the popularity of dream meanings.