Sweeney Todd

For this project, I designed a Playbill cover for the musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. This was made for my Foundations for Communication Design class at UNT.

Sweeney Todd is a dark musical about a crazed barber set on revenge. He murders his customers while shaving them, and to hide the evidence, he bakes his victims into meat pies. There are a lot of symbols associated with all the themes of a barbershop, baking and murder, which really lend themselves to interesting forced connections. 
My final design combines a meat pie with the screaming face of a victim. Texture and stylization were a huge challenge for me in this project, but I tried different methods until I found one that worked.
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