Today we continue our series of typographic theatrical posters, which we began the last week with The Three Musketeers. Today’s project, I, Claudius, illustrates the famous novel by Robert Graves, a pseudo-autobiography by the Roman emperor Claudius (better known to his friends and relatives as Claudius the Idiot, or That Fool Claudius, or Claudius the Stammerer). A great story, adapted for TV by BBC, would make a fine play.
Actually, the whole Theatre of Literature project’s roots lie in this poster, which evolved from a different design that it was first a part of. We thought it would make a good poster and only then did we decide to continue doing posters based on famous novels’ titles.
The title is arranged from paper letters cut out and then cut into pieces so that they resemble a broken stone or mosaic. This brings to mind the passing of time…
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