Type Specimen

As a continuation of our project "Type Design" we were asked to create a type specimen for the typeface that we created. At first I thought that maybe doing a digital specimen would be a good idea. I wanted to create a 3D animation with the letters. However, this didn't really fit the concepts I had previously used while designing the type. I also felt that doing this project digitally would show a lack of diversity from me in terms of the mediums I use, since my lookbook was already a digital creation.

Since I discarded the idea of doing it digitally, I thought about doing a little booklet that showed the type and its details. However, I still didn't feel it was relevant to my concept or the building.

This was when I made a brainstorm of graphic object that I associate with the theatre. A poster was the idea I ended up selecting. I looked through examples of theatre bills from the 50's to the more recent ones. Just like my type, I wanted the poster to have more of an old/nostalgic feeling to it, rather than the more modern iterations of these.

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The poster below if my final poster. I ended up using orange and blue, because orange is the current colour of the National Theatre, and I used blue because it was the complementary colour and also because all the examples I looked at for inspiration use blue as one of their colours. I printed this poster in different types of paper, like sugar paper and newsprint. But ended up liking the look of the poster on newsprint the best.