Since causing your daughter’s death, I have not been a very good hypnotist
September 24th, 2006I had an out of the blue call to do publicity materials for the Perry St Theatre’s next play. I wish I had quoted them a higher fee, but at least its work.
I’m adapting the play cover/UK poster for the play, “An Oak Tree,” so some of the “figuring out what they want” work is done for me. The director and producer contacted me after getting a reference from a producer’s office that I had done “Tails” and “Laughing Liberally” for (I don’t have “Laughing Liberally” on the site since it’s not one I think of as a great design success, but had to be approved by a panel—design by committe).
The Perry St. team liked the cards I did for UCB LA and NY with a day-glo circus look and also the sloppy-on-purpose Four Faces of Eve card and wanted a type treatment along those lines.
They want to continue using the 19th Century engraving of a hypnotist and a subject, but the image is so degraded in the original it looks like it was taken from the web and blown up 500%. I’m trying to find a similar image in a Dover print book, but no luck so far. I may have to collage it from a couple cuts.
The pink and lime color scheme was also on the UK poster… only there they called it a colour scheme (pronounced sheem to match the Brit “shed-oo-al”)
the first steps