Although I missed the deadline for the contest, I wanted to share this design I made for the Rialto Theatre’s Rial-Tee Design Contest. The goal of the t-shirt design was to create merch that the Rialto could use for their non-profit fundraisers as well as community outreach throughout the year.

The inspiration for my design comes from the theater’s history as well as the brutalism design style. I wanted to utilize iconography and some typography to highlight historical elements of the theater, from its vaudeville performances to when it was a first-run, Spanish-language movie house in the 1970s. When it came to this design, I made sure to do my homework when it came to presenting the Rialto’s history in a visually appealing way.