Project 7: The Bard

In this assignment, we were assigned to do a Royal Shakespeare Company cover for a Shakespeare production. I chose Comedy of Errors and here is a synopsis where I based my ideas from. 

This drama is one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare. The Comedy of Errors relies heavily on mix-ups and witty dialogue. The characters include two sets of twins, Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse. Dromio of Ephesus is the slave of Antipholus of Ephesus, and Dromio of Syracuse is the slave of Antipholus of Syracuse. Antipholus of Ephesus is unaware that he has a twin brother, Antipholus of Syracuse. And Dromio of Ephesus is unaware that he also has a twin brother, Dromio of Syracuse. Farcical mix-ups occur when all the twins all meet in Ephesus. The themes of the play are reality, time, coincidence and love.

And while designing the cover, we had to go back in character from the Pseudonym from earlier project assignments, which was Claire-less for me. Since she a unorganized, sloppy kind of person, I made the cover messy and not so perfect coloring with bright colors. I chose another media from the ordinary which was Crayola Crayons, since I normally don't use it in most of my personal projects. I chose using the characters in shock while looking at each other and with the typography of the title, I used the "C" and "Y" 's as half neck braces, just like some people back in the day would wear them with their fancy outfits. On the "E" on Errors, I made an cross x to emphasis the meaning of the word.