JOE LILLINGTON – SHAKESPEARE
This epic illustrated fantasy map featuring over 140 characters from The Bard’s plays is finally unveiled at the recently refurbished Folger Shakespeare Library in Washing DC.
The library is the world’s largest Shakespeare collection and home to more than 300,000 objects including rare books, manuscripts and works of art. Joe collaborated with Storythings and a curator from Folger to visualise the characters in an imaginary landscape with forest, sea, wilderness and city locations to represent the many themes that feature in Shakespeare’s plays.
It was a challenging brief trying to blend all the different worlds and settings of each play together to make a playful map that will encourage visitors to test their knowledge. Joe said:
“We wanted the map to be fun and engaging and one of my favourite parts of trying to achieve this was adding fun little ‘easter egg’ details for people to find if they knew aspects of certain plays.”
Read the rest of our interview with Joe Lillington about this project and check out his updated portfolio.
Joe Lillington is represented by Arena Illustration.