Logo,
poster
etc. year 2003
Size:
70 x 50
cm
Technique:
Collage
Hans
Christian Andersen
Festival Plays
in The Funen Village
in
Odense, where
Hans Christian Andersen
was born in
1805, announces its logo
and
The
Nightingale, as usual written by
director Erik
Bent Svendlund. I have
the
honour to
design the logo and poster
each
year. I made
it in 2000, 2001, 2002
and
now 2003. I
2004 the musical is Thumbelina
and in 2005 on
Hans Christian Andersen's
200 year
birthday it will be a medley
of
Andersen's
fairytales. We have asked
our
Queen Margaret
II to do the wing design
in
2005. As you
might already know Queen
Margaret II of
Denmark is a very skilled
artist.
How
it is made
The poster and logo
will
be used for many purposes,
cover of the program, on the internet, on T-shirts, on caps etc.
My goal is to make a
colorful
poster, which is one of a series of 10 posters, that I have been asked
to
make.
So
far
I have "The Tinderbox" in 2000, Simple Simon in 2001, the Shepherdess
and
the Chimney Sweep
in 2002, The
Nightingale
in 2003 and now Thumbelina to the festival play in 2004.
The first thing to
happen
is that I am told which musical The Festival Plays intend to play next
year.
Even before this
year's
performance of the Nightingale - in June 2003 -
I read the fairy tale about Thumbelina.
I begin making drafts.
This time I knew that it had to be a butterfly pulling Thumbeline in
her
belt,
as Thumbelina is sitting on a water lily.
The colors are red, yellow,
green
and blue on a black background as it has been every time before.
I draw with a pencil or I am
using
a computer.
The motif is
hereafter
cut in Silkscreen printed paper - and the original is ready to be
verified
by the chairman of the Festival Plays, Jorn Erik Schreiner.
The printer makes the
motif
ready to print on a computer and I verify it if necessary.
Sincerely,
Asbjorn Lonvig, artist
The
Nightingale