Series of illustrations for the playback theatre

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Here’s my last course project which was made during my studies at Projector Institute.

Our customer was the Ukrainian playback theatre Vakhtery. They provided a brief which required me to create a series of illustrations for a tote bag, a T-shirt, a postcard and 3 - 5 stickers.

My work on the brief started by researching playback theatre in general and watching recordings of the particular theatre Vakhtery to understand their work and find things that represent them more. I liked how the story transformed during each performance, so I took this idea of transformation as a starting point.

The main idea of these works is to show feelings that appear during a performance. These illustrations are about creation, transformation and feeling of freedom. This is why I used easy-to-understand symbols such as the moon, stars, sprouts and spirals.

The image of a human is generalised, because in this case what is important is what is inside a person - feelings, emotions and stories. Hands symbolise creation as well as being one of the methods to talk and show emotions.

For the postcard, I chose to use a silhouette of the map of Ukraine and I added in there lots of stories and things I feel connect all of us, from beautiful nature to amazing people.