My Role: Freelance Publicity Designer

Comments: I conceptualized, illustrated and designed this publicity poster promoting MIT Musical Theatre Guild's musical production "Once Upon a Mattress" based on the classic fairytale "Princess and the Pea" where a princess wins the hand of a prince by proving herself as a "real princess" sensitive enough to feel a tiny pea buried in layers of mattresses. In this poster, you may note that the Princess Winifred lying on mattresses forms the positive space and the profiles of the Queen and her son, the Prince are defined in the negative space formed around the mattressses. This duality playfully depicts the competitive nature of this contest between the Queen and Winifred to win the Prince. I used golds and purples to suggest the colors of royalty and '70ish-looking iconic patterns on the mattresses to reinforce our Director's vision of this play as being representative of a '70s-like feminist approach toward a '50s goal of winning a man for a husband.

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