Final Prints - Hamlet

This is probably my least successful print, in terms of the printing quality and the theme overall. In honesty, the length of this project has really tested my ability to keep coming up with new ideas for the same source material, and I feel I started running out of steam when it came to redesigning my prints over Christmas.
I again wanted to aim for a cinema movie poster theme with this, but the lack of any real underlying visual narrative means it doesn't fit into the set as well as I could have made it. I'm happy with it as a logo, but the concepts that drove this weren't as strong as my other ideas for the rest of the set of prints. Because of this I used this as a bit of a tester in terms of trying out more graphic imagery in screenprinted format, as its a style I'm moving forward with in general with my work, and Responsive in particular. The icons work well to communicate the overly theatrical nature of Hamlet as a character, and the many factors that fuel him, that I was aiming to convey, but the execution just wasn't as strong as it could have been. (which could also be said about Hamlet because everyone ends up dead)