The Team: Eric
All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is a fun little play about being a kid and growing up. We designed a series of print pieces around the show including posters, postcards and programs. The design is based off of photos from the producers childhood, mixed with super-clean fonts and hand-drawn artwork in playful and childish ways. The programs were black and white stapled photocopies, handed out with crayons, and the audience was encouraged to color and draw on them before the show.
The Team: Eric
“After Mrs. Rochester” is an epic play following the painful life of one a writer from childhood through her first novel. Working with the director and designers, we focused in on scribbled drawings and rough draft imagery. The marketing pieces we did involved complex ’scribbles’ featuring some of the main imagery and ideas from the play. The final posters and programs had the feel of being rough drafts, with notes and corrections in the margins of typewriter written and stapled pages.
Built for tne.meyerbros.org, TnE is an online multiplayer clone of the board game Tigris & Euphrates, by Reiner Knizia.
The Team: Eric
This Goshen College production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing was a playful, rowdy, sports-themed joy of a play. The entire production was based around games, rules and obstacles for the actors. We worked closely with the director and other designers, sitting in on rehearsals and taking part in the games. The final design was based on cut-out strips from costume and set design samples reassembled to create the lead lovers of the play. The layout and typography reflected interesting and unconventional uses of space. Like the show, the posters and programs that we designed were heavily influenced by the rehearsal process and unknowing input of actors, designers and everyone else that added to the rehearsal atmosphere.
The Team: Eric
“A Plague of Angels” was a new play about Typhoid Mary, a woman who became a symbol of the typhoid epidemic after infecting many families for whom she worked. It was a grand and magical production, with many layers. The posters and programs reflected the heavy, saturated nature of the shows design, with layers of color and photographic images out of science, history and the production itself.