TAFE Illustration: Theatre Poster & Birthday Wrapping Paper
Design Brief
Design a theatre poster for a Romeo and Juliet play at the Sydney Theatre Company and a wrapping paper design for
a birthday party.
Design Solution
The theatre poster was created by first making 6 different ideas, turning them into two ideas with 6 variations. The grave was drawn in Adobe Illustrator, while the items were drawn on paper and were water colour. Both were imported into Adobe Photoshop, where colour was fixed and affects were applied to the grave, date and title to give it a more handrawn look. The fonts were chosen for their antique design.
The birthday wrapping paper started with being unisex, and needed to include the iconography. Cake, hats, balloons and party poppers were chosen, with the star and ribbons as extra embelishments. They were drawn on paper, coloured via watercolour, and then scanned to be edited in Adobe Photoshop to make them pop, before being rearranged into a pattern in Adobe Illustrator.