A perk of being the graphic designer for the trinidad+tobago film festival, is getting dibs on designing for new projects. In April 2017, they held their first Tobago Jazz Film Festival, as a fringe event during Tobago's annual Jazz Fest and I was tasked with designing the new brand. Excitement! Meant to still be affiliated with the ttff brand in someway, the use of Akzidenz Grotesk was a must (the official typeface of the ttff), but I did have fun breaking the rules a bit and coming up with something fun, quintessentially Caribbean, without being too cliché.
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The Brand in use. Photos taken by Kyle Walcott.
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