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A series of pink posters and a digital invitation for a play titled “El principio de Arquímedes”. The design features a photograph of a white swan floating on water.

Tres Tipos Gráficos creates clean, pared-back theatre posters

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Date
6 July 2015

Spanish studio Tres Tipos Gráficos has created these simple posters for plays that ran last season at Teatro de La Abadía, a theatre and performing arts facility in Madrid. The studio has represented each production with a photograph that encapsulates the general feeling and atmosphere of the play as opposed to a specific scene or character to encourage the audience to create their own interpretations.

The composition is beautiful with the main image placed off-centre and the most prominent colour of the photograph used in the background. This pared-back bleeding of the image combined with bold type propped behind the image creates a clean, modern, impactful poster. Individually they’re striking but as a series they’re wonderfully cohesive.

Two posters for theatrical productions. The first is blue and features a photo of a green wall covered in small white flowers, with the title “Invernadero” and the name “Harold Pinter”. The second is cream and shows a close-up of a concrete building fragment against a blue sky, titled “Hacia la alegría”.
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Tres Tipos Gráficos: Teatro de La Abadía

Two posters for theatrical productions. The first is off-white with the title “Mi gran obra” and a small, detailed illustration of people in a building. The second is pink and features a photo of a person floating in water, with the title “El principio de Arquímedes”.
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Tres Tipos Gráficos: Teatro de La Abadía

Two posters for theatrical productions. The first is pink and features a stack of geometric shapes under the title “Pinocchio”. The second is blue and shows two people standing in a field under the title “Entre-meses”.
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Tres Tipos Gráficos: Teatro de La Abadía

Two posters for theatrical productions. The first is bright blue and features a person swimming underwater, with the title “Bleu” in bold black type. The second is split between a photo of a person standing on a rocky ledge and a beige section with the title “Petit Pierre”.
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Tres Tipos Gráficos: Teatro de La Abadía

Two posters for theatrical productions. The first features a stone column fragment and reads “Antígona”, while the second shows a headless marble bust and reads “Medea”.
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Tres Tipos Gráficos: Teatro de La Abadía

A light blue poster for the play “Edipo Rey” by Sophocles. It features a cropped photograph of a classical stone sculpture of a figure against a backdrop of modern apartment blocks.
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Tres Tipos Gráficos: Teatro de La Abadía

A collection of promotional materials for a play titled “El principio de Arquímedes”. The red and white designs feature a photograph of a white swan swimming in water.
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Tres Tipos Gráficos: Teatro de La Abadía

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Rebecca Fulleylove

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Rebecca Fulleylove is a freelance writer and editor specialising in art, design and culture. She is also senior writer at Creative Review, having previously worked at Elephant, Google Arts & Culture, and It’s Nice That.

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