Steven Harrington's work could be useful to look at, he uses screen printing to combine lots of quite symbolic, meaningful images to produce patterns or big images...
He is influenced by Time-Life Encyclopedias 1965-1972, thrift stores and the 60s pysch sounds of The Moody Blues, his art might be termed 'contextual objectivism'. That is, each piece is created as a tangible object symbiotically defined of a larger context.






http://www.goincase.com/curatedbyarkitip/stevenharrington/