The Myrtle Bank Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica in the 1940s. The musical takes place in a fictionalized interior of the hotel. Design cues were taken from the heavy use of arches and circles.
An early concept sketch by colleague Larry Watson.
My final floor plan, using a circular motif and breaking through the curtain line.
The cast rehearsing with stand-in furniture and the beginning of set construction.
Protest placards for Jamaica's only LGBT-rights group.
Partial character set from Wingdings, the ubiquitous Windows dingbat typeface intended to provide a library of universal symbols, and the basis of the hand iconography I developed for the placards.
Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag, representing the LGBT movement. Too polarizing a symbol for Jamaica, I borrowed four of its colors so the placards would evoke its message of unity.
A single placard.
A J-FLAG demonstration in Kingston, Jamaica in May 2010.
A J-FLAG demonstration in Kingston, Jamaica in May 2010.
