Winning poster design for a contest at Northwest Arkansas Community College.  The design was used for promotion of a play through posters and social media.  It was also used for the program covers.

An alternative design with a sculptor's scalpel. Since the female lead in the play was a painter, not a sculptor, this one was not chosen.

Alternative poster, with a scalpel.  The orginal design used a scalpel, but the director of the play wanted alternatives with artists' tools to compare with the scalpel.  This design was not chosen.

 

Original concept.  The Shape of Things is a play about a female artist who is writing a thesis and decides to use a man as her medium.  I wanted to go with a typographical concept of flesh being the imperfections she is carving away and used words she used to describe him to show what she was carving away.  I wanted to put him on a pedestal for display, and found the T in Things to create the perfect one.  I also wanted to use the counter space in the O to reflect the theme.

 

The director chose this poster because he liked the concept, but wanted some changes.  The hand he wanted to look more feminine.  He wanted an artist's tool rather than a scalpel.  The wanted some changes to the typography.  He also wanted to bring the love relationship, or at least a hint of it, into the poster.  I replaced the hand and changed the scalpel to an artist's pallette knife.  I enlarged the font, moved the description to the top and replaced the O in the word 'of" with a heart that included both the male and female character silhouettes.  He also wanted me to add a warning for adult content and bring some of the red from the fingernail polish into the rest of the poster.