Saul Bass the Boss

As I go through my education in graphic design I learn more and more about what I have deemed "The Greats" Basically the best of the best in graphic design. One of these such artists include Saul Bass. As a pioneer in minimalism he was sought after in movie poster design. He had several characteristics he stuck with. He had a very blocky and textured way of representing parts of the story that tell the whole thing. For example.

In my favorite poster of his, Bonnie in Clyde, He used the tire tracks and two bullets to make a dollar sign. Those three elements, money, a runaway car, and bullets capture the essence of their story.

For my poster I first chose Alice in Wonderland, but I realized that there are so many elements to the story that it would be hard to narrow it down to the most important, but of course I didn't let that stop me and tried anyway.

It was subpar.
So I tried the Wizard of Oz

Yeah, not quite yet.

I tickered around and finally got this

This is my final project and I'm pretty proud of it. I included just the hair/hats of main characters to scale down the details and put the "yellow bricks" over where their eyes would be because their eyes are always on the road.

Overall I think I could have added white somewhere and made the heads more minimalist. But I like it anyway.