The Workshop’s schedule
Instead of writing dates on the posters, the Workshop published the monthly schedule of the performances in a regular way. These brochures were printed on coated papers or light writing papers and were usually unicolor or bicolor. The papers, whose background color changed each month, carried on them the name of the Theatre Workshop, the month and year of the program and the National Iranian Radio and Television’s logo.
Workshop’s logo
The workshop had no specific logo. Since it was affiliated with the National Iranian Radio and Television, it used the same logo.
Let’s put a chair by the window and sit and watch the long, dark, silent, cold night of the desert
The idea of the poster was proposed by Nalbandian, himself, …show more content…
The reason might be his close friendship with the directors of the Workshop or the same theme of their works. At any rate, the cover of “S. S. M. from Death to Death” cannot be placed in any of the common categories of book design in Iran. Not even can the book be placed in any literary category! His other sketches are used for Three by Peter Handke and If Faust Had Acted a Bit More Gentlemanly by Nalbandian.
The Servant
The Servant, directed by Bijan Mofid, is a play based on folk tales and recalls the traditional Iranian plays named ru-howzi. The play director announces the entrance of the Sultan. Sultan enters the scene, followed by the Vizier. It is the trial of a young rural who has knocked the Sheriff down in front of the public due to the Sheriff’s disrespect. The trial is held. As usual, the Vizier is beheaded instead of the young rural who is now called the Servant and the play goes on! The play is designed by Bijan Saffari. The word design, which is emphasized in the Workshop’s manifest, includes set, custom, lighting, poster, brochure, and book cover design. The cover of The Servant which is folded several times is composed of the postures of the characters of the play. Unfolding each pleat reveals the face and customs of a character.
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They imprisoned Nalbandian and his assistant in the Workshop’s basement and transferred him to the prison after a while. It was never known what happened to the Workshop’s neatly classified archive of photos, plays, books, and posters. Although, some say there were piles of torn paper in the nearby street and brooks for a few days.
The Theatre Workshop in Iran’s Museum of Graphics
Last winter, in a beautiful snowy day, Iran’s Museum of Graphics was inaugurated in Arbab Hormoz edifice, located in Bagh Anari, Tehran Pars district in the East of Tehran. Some of the posters of the Theatre Workshop are included in the Museum’s collection. Although the pioneers of Iran’s graphic design often disregarded experimental, alternative graphic tendencies, the Museum of Graphics’ committee of Iran’s Graphic Design Society (IGDS) has collected and conserved a good collection of these posters during the recent years. Some of the Theatre Workshop posters that are registered in the Museum of Graphics include:
- Let’s Put a Chair … No. P698
- Suddenly, No. DP549
- The Chant and Two Executioners, No. P622
- Immediately, No.
Instead of writing dates on the posters, the Workshop published the monthly schedule of the performances in a regular way. These brochures were printed on coated papers or light writing papers and were usually unicolor or bicolor. The papers, whose background color changed each month, carried on them the name of the Theatre Workshop, the month and year of the program and the National Iranian Radio and Television’s logo.
Workshop’s logo
The workshop had no specific logo. Since it was affiliated with the National Iranian Radio and Television, it used the same logo.
Let’s put a chair by the window and sit and watch the long, dark, silent, cold night of the desert
The idea of the poster was proposed by Nalbandian, himself, …show more content…
The reason might be his close friendship with the directors of the Workshop or the same theme of their works. At any rate, the cover of “S. S. M. from Death to Death” cannot be placed in any of the common categories of book design in Iran. Not even can the book be placed in any literary category! His other sketches are used for Three by Peter Handke and If Faust Had Acted a Bit More Gentlemanly by Nalbandian.
The Servant
The Servant, directed by Bijan Mofid, is a play based on folk tales and recalls the traditional Iranian plays named ru-howzi. The play director announces the entrance of the Sultan. Sultan enters the scene, followed by the Vizier. It is the trial of a young rural who has knocked the Sheriff down in front of the public due to the Sheriff’s disrespect. The trial is held. As usual, the Vizier is beheaded instead of the young rural who is now called the Servant and the play goes on! The play is designed by Bijan Saffari. The word design, which is emphasized in the Workshop’s manifest, includes set, custom, lighting, poster, brochure, and book cover design. The cover of The Servant which is folded several times is composed of the postures of the characters of the play. Unfolding each pleat reveals the face and customs of a character.
And …show more content…
They imprisoned Nalbandian and his assistant in the Workshop’s basement and transferred him to the prison after a while. It was never known what happened to the Workshop’s neatly classified archive of photos, plays, books, and posters. Although, some say there were piles of torn paper in the nearby street and brooks for a few days.
The Theatre Workshop in Iran’s Museum of Graphics
Last winter, in a beautiful snowy day, Iran’s Museum of Graphics was inaugurated in Arbab Hormoz edifice, located in Bagh Anari, Tehran Pars district in the East of Tehran. Some of the posters of the Theatre Workshop are included in the Museum’s collection. Although the pioneers of Iran’s graphic design often disregarded experimental, alternative graphic tendencies, the Museum of Graphics’ committee of Iran’s Graphic Design Society (IGDS) has collected and conserved a good collection of these posters during the recent years. Some of the Theatre Workshop posters that are registered in the Museum of Graphics include:
- Let’s Put a Chair … No. P698
- Suddenly, No. DP549
- The Chant and Two Executioners, No. P622
- Immediately, No.