A colorful abstract digital artwork featuring stylized faces with blue and black facial features, geometric shapes, flowers, and bright yellow star-like elements on a pink background.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

Season Identity
Collateral Design

2024

For this monumental 45th anniversary landmark, Buddies moved away from their traditional photographic approach to embrace a playful and energetic illustrative style, provided by Toronto’s Mitch Duncan (@mitchduncanart). To match this outgoing visual style, we employed two contrasting but complementary font styles to create typographic-scapes worthy of Buddies’ historic theatrical narrative.

  • An image of the Cultural Center.

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  • An image of the Cultural Center.

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  • A pink flyer advertising the February 2024 event of Rhubarb, Canada's longest-running new works festival. The flyer features stylized purple and black illustrations of Buddies with floral elements and a large, bold pink text reading 'Rhubarb.' The left side contains a brief description of Rhubarb's 45th anniversary and its role in performance art and artist exchanges.

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  • Open magazine featuring artistic illustrations of women’s faces with flowing hair, in purple and white, accompanying an article.

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An open magazine features an article titled 'Angels in America' with large white text overlaying a black and teal illustration of an angel's face and wings. The magazine page includes dates, author, and director information, with a light blue background.
A poster for the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre's 45th anniversary season, featuring abstract, colorful shapes with pink, blue, black, and yellow accents, and large pink numerals '45' and '40' on a light pink background