Poster by Naomi DeBoer
This is an image I first saw and had to double-take on my way out of the classroom building. In terms of posters advertising events on campus (and God Almighty knows there are horrible ones out there), this is one that doesn't scream at you to look at it. It doesn't use huge block lettering, or a bad joke, to get your attention - it's a fairy-tale image and it's in my opinion that Naomi does best at this style.
And she managed to fit a lot of information on the bottom wipe.
I wonder about the red coloring on the bottom though - it kind of freaks me out.
The tree and canvas background are hand painted in acrylic on canvas. The swoops and copy were added afterward in Illustrator and Photoshop... right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Naomi DeBoer is currently a junior majoring in both Fine Arts and Graphic Design. She's done other work for the Theatre Arts dept. - the poster for Dead Man Walking and the playbill for Urinetown immediately come to mind.
(The images on blogspot really don't show very well - should we move this to photoblog instead?)
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I was quite taken by this poster when I saw it as well. It's very dreamy and magical.
ReplyDeleteMy only criticism would be that it doesn't really reflect what the play is about. It makes me think of a mystical fairyland, but the play actually takes place in 1920's england and italy. Does that matter? I don't know. I do get an art nouveau feel from the swirls, and that was sort of around that time.
Purely from a design perspective-I love it. It's all very luminescent. For some reason, this poster grabbed my attention more than most of the other ones I've seen. It's unexpected.
I haven't read the play, and I was wondering that myself. DOES that matter? I think it does. The poster has a bit of an Into The Woods feel, a fairy-tale image, that might not sit with the content of the play. Or maybe it does more than we say? 1920s England and Italy? Why not? We'll see.
ReplyDeleteThis site is a cool idea alvin, I'm looking forward to more posts.
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