I felt like I was really on a roll from Hamilton Township to Mud, to this one and right up through to the (ahem) rejected Unbeaten deisgn. They have rich texture, original photography (except for the couch–that’s stock), expressive typography (or hand lettering) and accurately represent SVT. I am really proud of this series of posters.
I’ve always loved the little line-drawings in dictionaries. For Mud I did my take on one of those illustrations. The background photo is actual mud from my very own backyard. This design also features some of my famous handwriting and letter drawing.
Poster (11×17):
Poster (11×17):
Every holiday season Jason Neulander would come up with a word and his arsenal of performers would come up with 5-minute plays based on that word. This particular year’s word was “fire”. I think this was one of my favorite holiday designs.
Starting out with a great photograph by Christopher Shea it wasn’t hard to come up with a really nice design. I just let the type dance around the image picking up colors along the way.
This was one of the most conventional posters I’ve done for SVT. On the previous posters I employed a method of the content being inspired by key elements or themes of the play. Where this one has more traditional theater poster elements like pull-quotes, a cast photo montage, and sponsor logos. And yet it still fits in with the established SVT design as I was able to collage these pieces and use strong dynamic typography.
This was a revival of the original Nemesis poster from back in 2000 which was printed offset with fluorescent blue and metallic silver spot colors. This Nemesis Trilogy poster was a digital print but I stuck with the 3-plate æsthetic and only used flat colors and a chunky halftone screen on the cyan background.
Static was a very personal and intense performance. The production had a cast of one (!) and took place in a motel room with an audience of no more than 12 people. To help prepare people for this intimacy I used a great Sarah Bork Hamilton photograph of the actor laying on a bed, staring directly at the viewer, in the same motel room that the performance takes place. Drawings of key items from the script were layered on the image (different items on the postcard and poster) and a nice big red square is uncomfortably positioned over half of the actor’s face.
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Ah! Another Dan Dietz play. Now this was a crazy fun play. Here’s a line that was used to describe it: “Of Mice and Men meets Natural Born Killers meets your high school American History class taught by a Jerry Lee Lewis look-a-like.” I tried to translate that insane fun on the poster with a textbook-style illustration of American Revolution-era patriots, greasers and poodle-skirt girls dancing over photos of atomic blasts, and typography from the evil twin of Beach Blanket Bingo.
