Postcard: The Dumb Waiter

• Date: 2018
• Media: cardstock

The brief challenged me to compose a layout using torn, folded, crumpled, and otherwise manipulated paper as my primary form-making tool, with digital text added afterwards.

My postcard promotes a fictional performance of Harold Pinter’s play The Dumb Waiter. The play features a newspaper that one of the two main characters uses as a device to shift the dialogue away from uncomfortable subjects, creating overlapping and contrasting narratives. I chose to reflect this in my layout through the use of torn newsprint in a vertical orientation. The heaviness of Rift Bold helps the important information about the play cut through the confusion. The reverse side of the postcard is conventional and leaves space for extra writing.