Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#1

Posted: 1/5/08 at 10:48am

This looks like it was made in 10 seconds on Microsoft Word.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[B3TA07]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#2

Posted: 1/5/08 at 10:49am

Maybe it reflects a minimalist concept in the show including increasingly smaller line readings (ie lower volume)...

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#2

Posted: 1/5/08 at 10:52am

I understand the concept of the text getting smaller and smaller.

It's as though Little Sheba is becoming farther and farther out of reach.

It just seems like they could have at least made it look somewhat professional.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[B3TA07]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#3

Posted: 1/5/08 at 10:52am

What is this play about?


ETA: It probably took them an extra 5 minutes to do that really impressive photoshop of the photograph covering the black box outline!!

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

Updated On: 1/5/08 at 10:52 AM

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#4

Posted: 1/5/08 at 10:57am

Without giving any spoilers away, the play is about a faded beauty queen in the Midwest in 1950, and her husband who has just overcome alcoholism.

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

[B3TA07]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#5

Posted: 1/5/08 at 10:59am

Oh, thank God. I thought it was about Harriet Tubman.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[SDav 10495]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#6

Posted: 1/5/08 at 11:06am

Yay Helvetica!

"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit." (Emanuel Azenberg)

[B3TA07]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#7

Posted: 1/5/08 at 11:09am

They were going to use Arial, but Disney has exclusive rights for their Playbills.

-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/

[adamgreer]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#8

Posted: 1/5/08 at 11:15am

Is that Times New Roman? Did they really just go into MS Word and use the default font?

[Ourtime992]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#9

Posted: 1/5/08 at 12:25pm

No, Times New Roman is a serif font. As SDAV stated above, it looks like Helvetica (or at least a very close variant). The parallel lines in the closure of the C are a dead give away. At least the clipping path on the photo is pretty good.

[BrianIdol]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#10

Posted: 1/5/08 at 12:31pm

i like it......

[Brick]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#11

Posted: 1/5/08 at 12:38pm

I like it, too.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#12

Posted: 1/5/08 at 3:35pm

Yeah, I like it as well

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[LizzieCurry]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#13

Posted: 1/5/08 at 3:38pm

It looks VERY 50s, but something is not quite right about it.

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[jordangirl]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#14

Posted: 1/5/08 at 3:38pm

Add me to the like it camp. Sometimes simplicity is better.

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[henryt]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#15

Posted: 1/5/08 at 3:39pm

B3TA07, putting the picture on top of the lines is a 20 second layer rearrangement on photoshop. If you put the line below the picture, it ends up looking like that.

[millie_dillmount]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#16

Posted: 1/5/08 at 3:47pm

"It probably took them an extra 5 minutes to do that really impressive photoshop of the photograph covering the black box outline!!"

Haha.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

[Gingersnap2]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#17

Posted: 1/5/08 at 3:51pm

The concept is fine. The execution is poor.

It reminds me of the fliers that my no-budget drama department in high school cobbled together for a production of "Tartuffe."

[Joshua488]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#18

Posted: 1/5/08 at 5:49pm

I would like it if they had used a different font. There are plenty of fonts that are simple and not fancy that aren't Helvetica/Arial.

[Fosse76]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#19

Posted: 1/5/08 at 6:09pm

You people really need to get lives. I mean, seriously, arguing over the font on a Playbill cover???

[RentBoy86]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#20

Posted: 1/5/08 at 6:12pm

I think it looks rather hip, but still looks within period. I like it. It's different.

[LizzieCurry]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#21

Posted: 1/5/08 at 6:12pm

You people really need to get lives. I mean, seriously, arguing over the font on a Playbill cover???

Clearly you haven't been to art school.

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[Joshua488]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#22

Posted: 1/5/08 at 6:26pm

Amen, LizzieCurry.

[Yankeefan007]

re: Is MTC's Graphic Designer On Strike?#23

Posted: 1/5/08 at 7:02pm

Aside:

All I hope is that Roundabout's Playbill for SUNDAY IN THE PARK... is in color. For obvious reasons.

But it won't be.