The purpose was to design and produce a type-dominated poster, with little to no illustration, that evokes my personality and my interests. A minimum of two colors and two types of charts were required. My chosen topic was the worldly popular comic book series Tintin about a boy detective and his sidekick Snowy, an adorable, brave, smart and funny wire haired pup. It was my goal to portray them and their global impact in an informative, compelling, appealing, understandable, and visual way.
To introduce the protagonist and his faithful sidekick I illustrated tiny portraits of Tintin and Snowy and tucked those within the letters of the title. Colors, mined from the books themselves, were kept to a playful yet minimal number of four, creating mood, unity, and clarity. Type choices reinforced the tone of sophisticated playfulness. Everything from pie charts, fever charts, tables, and radial graphs to text blocks, lists, and over-sized numbers were employed to tell the story of a boy and his dog and how their adventures that spanned half a century educated, entertained, and delighted audiences world-wide. Meticulously measured and considered alignments, line-weights, character styles, and leading, along with carefully-applied type and color hierarchy function as a well-oiled machine to bring this team of fun players together in a winning way.
