Tramway Theatre Blessington Opened in 2007, Their Mission is to provide a state of the art Theatre for stimulation and development of the Arts with access and participation by all sections of the Blessington and surrounding community.
The project was to create logos and posters for the theatre.
The theatre was connected to a primary school but was better built and equipped than most established medium size venues. They wanted to portray the image of a professional venue that could meet the needs in terms of technology and capacity but you had to go through a primary school to enter. The other strange detail was the name. It was picked by having a local competition. Many years ago there was a Tramway that went to the village but the Theatre wasn’t anywhere near the site. So I would have to reconcile all of these things while keeping in mind any design work would have to be greenlit by committee.
In my role I created all the logos and posters including the illustration work
The concept for the logo on the above left is a wheel of the letter T. This gives us the impression of motion. In the negative white space, we see the focus of a camera or stage light.
The middle and right logos are variations on the same idea. We have a tunnel made from the two capital letters T in Tramway Theatre. A track is coming from the tunnel.it is encapsulated in a circle or circle and a curved rectangle. This plays with the tramway roots the theatre wants to portray. I paired it with an appropriate font and the overall design reminds us of well-maintained aesthetically pleasing European train stations from the early part of the last century.
The above logo tried to balance the Tramway lineage of the theatre with the connection it has to the local school and community. I stacked the words and joined the type to be similar to when people view train maps. Under the back half of Tramway I included a smiling face. the mway become the top of the head. The letter e becomes the ears. the second t in theatre is dropped to become a nose. accents become the eyes and a semi-circle becomes the mouth.
Above is the hamlet poster I created. It makes use of the iconic skull scene and the poison that is used as a weapon throughout the play.
I created the Othello poster above using vintage stamps. Othello worked his way up to become a general in the armies of Venice. but as a Christian moor is rejected based on race. The stamps are from countries that had empires or were slavers or enslaved to varying extents in the past. I use them in a silhouette of Othello.
The Macbeth poster above shows three major points of the play combined into one image. The grasp for power of an illegitimate king, the queen's desire egging on Macbeth, and the blood on their hands that will never go away. All images were hand illustrated in adobe illustrator.
