Gordon Brown

I have now been ask to make another four version’s of Hamlets Soliloquy to portray four different people reading it.
The first was Gordon Brown. From Researching him, I found that he was quite a bold person and was dedicated to his family away from the public eye. I decided to use the typeface Hoefler Text because it is quite a bold typeface yet some of its characters are rounded and soft which shows his softer side.
Here is my interpretation of Gordon Brown reading the soliloquy.

I started by trying to make the layout similar to an official letter or speech that Gordon may have read out with his personal notes on the side, and faded the type on the left side to show how he is blind on his left side from a childhood accident.

The image below my design is a magazine article from Esquire magazine, which I came across after I had designed this page. It has a similar layout with the handwritten notes on the side. It reminds me of the notes people put on the side in their textbooks at school.