Brian Smith Walters of Elemental Opera contacted Hitch to offer anyone with an interest to submit a design for a flyer/poster design for Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. With the only comment really made was that red, green and white could be used to symbolize purity, lust/death and jealousy.
I decided to attempt a response for this brief and after reading about the opera and the fact that there are only nine characters within it, I decided to map out the characters similar to a wordsearch linking them altogether with the four themes expressed. Though I made death a separate identity to articulate the reality of it. I stuck to the three colours plus black and used Gill Sans as to allow the type to be legible at any size. This is my response
