TYPOGRAPHIC/QUE
In Latin, struere refers to the verb ‘to build’, which is exactly what a structure is, but are you are still building when talking about paper? Paper cutting is as important as taking things away from the page than the structure that comes out of the paper. Cutting is thus the opposite of building since you are creating an entire structure out of empty space, it is foremost erasing elements in order to build. In design, it is important to forget about the computer and go back to the properties of paper, there is so much one can learn from a single sheet of paper.
The Theatre Posters are constructed out of a single sheet away from the computer. It is labour intensive to build the structure and every new idea needs to start from the ground up. An idea such as this one allows the designer to go back to the root of design where ‘by hand’ meant something. It is playing with the idea of building a play and is working with light and shadow the same way the stage is. These posters are not about representing a theatre play; they are the theatre.
17 x 24", 2012 Mat Paper