Thomas Paine Flyer

Here are a couple of process images from the flyer we recently designed for Trestle Theatre, under the title “Thomas Paine: The Liberty Tree”. It was to promote a performance by two singer/songwriters, Leon Rosselsson and Robb Johnson with the titular free thinker as the theme.

This is the finished flyer:

Thomas Paine Flyer

It came together with ideas and work from all three of us; we especially wanted to have the tree as a central connecting image for the design, from this came the idea of having the roots spelling out the title of the piece. I created the text using a simple sans serif font to get the layout and give a guideline, then worked over that in pencil and ink:

Meanwhile Jim created this sweet guitar/tree motif in Photoshop. Here you can see it coloured and integrated with the text:

This was unfortunately unusable in the end as the brief stated the need to use pictures of the performers. To this end Matt created this sketch, and followed from there, inking it over the lightbox and eventually bringing all the separate components together for the final design:

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