As I decided in my previous post I am intending on displaying 24 postcard prints strung up in either 6 rows of 4 or 4 rows of 6 on a wooden board of some form. I personally believe that a light tone of wood will look best as it will make the prints stand out whereas a darker wood may be too overpowering. Below is the sort of wood tone which I think will work best.
I need to make a choice as to whether 6×4 or 4×6 in terms or the print rows will make for a more successful outcome. and therefore I have created these very simple mock ups of how the compositions will both appear.
After composing these layouts in order to see what would work best I have decided the the second option (4 rows of 6) would work best. I’ve made this decision as looking at both layouts the second looks much better due to the fact that the majority of the postcard prints will be landscape. And therefore a landscape board of wood would be most appropriate visually. I will also buy brown string and some wooden pegs of the same tone so that everything displaying the postcards matches. Here is the kind of string and small pegs I will try to buy somewhere.
Then after making all of these decisions I thought it would only be right that I make a mock-up draft on Photoshop of what the display will probably look like. So I did this in three steps: one with just the postcards, one with the string and one with both the string and the pegs (As you can see below.)
Overall with that as a mock up I am extremely happy as I believe it works really well, the composition of each postcard print is carefully considered as although it looks very random that was the point as I wanted to space out the prints depending on whether they were landscape/portrait, colour/monochrome, fronts/backs etc… Also doing this layout mock up has been useful in terms of working out what dimensions I will need to use for a wooden board, and I have come to the conclusion that I will need to use a 38 inch by 48 inch board. I intend to staple each string at both ends into the back of the board in order to tightly secure them so that the postcards can hang off them using the pegs.