In developing design ideas, various compositions and imagery were used. In doing so, it was thought back to the original packaging of the hubba bubba bubble tape. These came in various flavours with different coloured packaging to match the flavour. It was therefore thought that three sets of stickers could be produced to act as three different 'flavours' of vaporwave, using three of the common vaporwave themes for these. It has been decided that pink, blue and purple packaging will be used since these were found to match the associated vaporwave colour schemes the most.
In thinking about how each 'flavour' would be visualised, a series of mood boards were produced based on some of the common themes in vaporwave. The chosen themes in this instance were neo-classicism/ surrealism, obsolete technology/ design, and Japanese/ Asian imagery and/or skylines and summer scenery. These were chosen because they were thought to be some of the most well-known themes within the vaporwave aesthetic, as well as the imagery working well together to match the different colours and flavours.
Further design sketches were produced to continue to help in visualising this idea. It was decided to take similar ideas from initial sketches, for instance in showing the Greco-Roman bust blowing bubbles of gum and playing around with the composition of the Microsoft windows 98 logo. In order to keep the designs consistent in some way, it was thought that the Japanese characters for 'bubblegum' should be incorporated into all three designs in the same place. Not only would this produce some consistency to act as a set, this would also help put the designs into context better. However, this could also be produced in placing imagery of bubbles or bubblegum into the designs in some ways, although this would need to be carefully considered as this does not necessarily fit into the themes of each 'flavour' design.
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