Thursday

Angelina reading Hamlet

Angelina is linked to many humanitarian causes and she is best known for some of her work in Cambodia, so I wanted to create a typeface to reflect this.
I chose a Thai typeface because it was the nearest I could get to Cambodian. I really wanted to change the actual language to Khmer which is the Cambodian language but I had problems doing so.
For the background I chose a light green because I feel it is a Cambodian colour and I centred the body of text to the right as I wanted the design to feel simple.

Gordon Brown reading Hamlet

I wanted to display Gordon Brown in an editorial way as he is often in the papers and on the news and I think he would chose this media to read Hamlet.
The article is about Gordon Browns analysis on how he understands the soliloquy of Hamlet and how important it is for the next generation to understand the writings of Shakespeare.
I researched newspapers and magazine layouts. I wanted a catchy heading like the newspapers use so I took a interesting line from Hamlet and put it as the main heading.