Dutchman Play Poster
client:
Tempe Center for the Arts
A show poster for the play by Amiri Baraka that tackles the racial tension of 1960's America. In the play a white woman and black man share a subway car and as the woman begins to seduce the man, an extended conversation between the two heats up and bursts into a violent conclusion.
Using the design language of subway maps from the era, the central illustration depicts the struggle between the two play's leads as the title of the play wraps around their wrists, binding them in red subway lines, leading in divergent directions.
