2024 Youth Creative Belt
Design studio Ordinary People created a poster series and accompanying booklets for the 2024 Youth Creative Belt, organized by the National Theater Company of Korea’s Youth Drama Research Institute.
Throughout the series, the Latin is typeset in my typeface Megascope and the Hangul in AG MangdangDisplay from AG Typography Institute. I absolutely love how the designers took the letterforms and broke them down into linear elements, making them feel like something between a sketch and a schematic drawing. The complexity is mesmerizing!
Ordinary People describes the project as follows:
Youth plays are often abstract, open-ended, and undefined, reflecting the evolving identity of adolescence. This is expressed through outlines that give shape to form by way of incomplete and fragmented strokes, with the elements ultimately coming together to create the key visual for the 2024 Youth Play Reading Performance.
Each performance poster—“Half,” “How the Giraffe Travels,” and “In Your World”—distills the mood of each piece into keywords: “memory,” “farewell,” and “encounter.” These words were then visualized through various combinations of dashed, dotted, and intersecting lines. Bringing diversity to linearity empowers the visual identity to expand with distinction, while highlighting the unique character of each work.
