Into the Woods

On a shoestring student-theatre budget, I illustrated posters and programs for Salomon Theatre’s production of Into the Woods, and the work won an AIGA award. It proved scrappy ideas beat pricey paper any day. Each poster is built around a single image from the story, like a hooded cloak, scissors cutting through golden hair, a longhorn cow, or a lace-trimmed shoe, set in one color of red, yellow, blue, or green. A heavy white sans-serif title stacks the show name along the bottom, with the theatre’s name running vertically along the edge and show details set in a small serif. Pasted up side by side, the series forms a bold, repeating grid. The program opens with a black-and-white forest photo on the cover and carries the same images through its spreads, beside the cast list, songs for both acts, the director’s note, bios, and crew credits.

Into the Woods program spread with a cloaked witch photo and the full cast list

Into the Woods program spread listing Act One and Act Two songs beside the director's note next to a scissors photo

Into the Woods program spread with cast bios beside a yellow lace-trimmed high heel shoe

Into the Woods program spread listing bios for the director, musical director, sound designer, and lighting designer

Into the Woods program spread with the production crew list and a close-up cow photo

Dark black and white forest photo of tall pine trunks, used as a poster background image

Red Into the Woods poster with a silhouetted hooded cloak figure and Salomon Theatre show details

Yellow Into the Woods poster showing scissors cutting through flowing golden hair with show details

Blue-toned Into the Woods poster featuring a close-up longhorn cow face with show details

Yellow Into the Woods poster featuring a lace-trimmed high heel shoe with show details

Dark green Into the Woods poster with a red Little Red Riding Hood cloak silhouette in the forest

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