12 Angry Men

Stevens Dramatic Society's production in the Fall of 2014 was Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men, a story about twelve jurors and the verdict they come to in the trial of a young boy accused of killing his father. Not only was I designing the promotional materials, but I was also in a starring role.  Creating a logo was no easy feat until I got an idea at rehearsal. The set involved a large table that we all sat around for the course of the play. Thus, I thought integrating people sitting around the table was only fitting. I picked a bold font that could easily be sized into a square shape and positioned the twelve jurors around the table. The logo integrated the knife, which was a key piece of evidence in the trial, allowing the logo to still carry narrative weight even when omitting the jurors from some materials. Highlighting a single juror represents a narrative point in the play, where one juror believes the boy is not guilty contrary to the other eleven jurors' beliefs. Opinions are shifted and the lone outlier is not necessarily the same person as it was at the beginning.