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10th Best Salvage Vanguard Holiday Ever
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.
Thrush
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.
The Intergalactic Nemesis at the UTPAC
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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 […]
The Intergalactic Nemesis Trilogy
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
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 […]
Americamisfit
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 […]
The Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity
For this installment of the Nemesis series of productions the plot took us on a spy voyage to the Himalayas. I was inspied by 1960s-era spy movie graphics and typography and a great stock photo of a Tibetan mountain range which I tinted and cropped to make it a little more other-worldly.