Bagatelle
Art direction and poster design for the film Bagatelle.
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client
Good Hope Films
services
Poster Design
Art Direction
The Bagatelle poster is visually dissected into two parts—farmland and a barn above, and layers of dark textured ground below in which a cello is buried like a casket. The poster relates the desperate and unnerving state of the main character of this art-house social satire through symbolism and detail.
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TYPOGRAPHIC EXPERIMENTS
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TYPOGRAPHY
The final typographic treatment emphasizes the dualities in the film, namely the contrast between rural Texas and the world of classical music.
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ART DIRECTION
The Bagatelle poster was a collaboration with illustrator Igor Karash.
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Bagatelle included in Creative Quarterly Issue 45
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Bagatelle included in the 2018 Graphis Design Annual
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Bagatelle exhibited at 55th Annual Illustration West
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