TWELFTH NIGHT POSTER

I just designed this poster for my husband's middle school production of Twelfth Night. I literally did it almost overnight and stayed up way too late. It was quite fun, looking up psychedelic posters, listening to psychedelic music and then hand manipulating the fonts and using colors I like.

Now why is that significant? I've been working for the past year freelance art directing a mass market series of children's books that uses the same font, the same colors and the same look. The poster was anything but that. The art direction has been more time-consuming than I had anticipated, causing my disappearance from the blogosphere. The series is still ongoing and I'm still art directing it, but I'm going to set myself the goal of one blog post per month to give my creative juices an outlet.

Seussical Poster

I disappeared for a little while, didn't I?  One of the things I was doing was working on this poster for the local high school's performance of Seussical. I did all of it: the illustration, the typography and the layout. The director wanted the look to be a combination of Peter Max and Dr. Seuss. The river in the background refers to the Hudson River, on whose banks the city of Peekskill is situated on. It gives the background a groovy look.

Illustration Friday: SWARM

Harbingers of spring.

Illustration Friday: LAYERS

The first thing that came to mind for "Layers" was a cake with many layers. Then I remembered I had an image on hand for this. I made this last year for the invitation to my father's 70th birthday party. The mouse in the red jogging suit is a character in stories my father used to make up for us. Celebrations with my family always involve many cakes so it wouldn't do to show just one. And yes, there are 70 candles!