CATEGORY: POSTER DESIGN, IDENTITY DESIGN
ABOUT
A poet disappears abruptly, leaving his world haunted. This world has no fringe―its towers, minarets, tunnels and rooms lead one into the other endlessly. In there, we meet a weaver, a prosecutor, a daughter, a publisher, a bereaved student, and several more characters, all of whom tell us about the vanished poet and unravel the mystery behind his disappearance. In this maddening world of desire, rumour, and regret, the poet’s poems appear as phantom notes that speak truth to power, and we wonder: Can a poet change the world? Will they let him?
Like a flaneur gliding through a virtual-tentacular city, the audience navigates this world on internet-enabled devices. While watching the show, we might choose to step into a floating room, stay back and listen, or travel to another one. The Last Poet is an online interactive performance that brings together theatre, film, sound art, creative coding, and digital scenography.
MY TAKE
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The mysterious quality of the play is portrayed through the use of negative space to portray the feeling of the unknown while including tiny hints to the theme of the play. The costumes of the characters have been included in the silhouette figures; details like glasses, hats, flowers are quite stunning. The poster posits the viewer in the shoes of the last poet, and conjures an intrigue about whether the silhouette characters are peering into an abyss to look for the poet, or are responsible for pushing him into it.
We chose to use the Bazaar font as the bazaar font has window like characteristics in it which depict the feeling of creating an imaginary space around the viewer.