Crime Noir Bookmark

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Summary

I'm launching a consulting service with a noir detective theme: The nine most common causes of project failure are personified as a criminal lineup. Characters like Mister On-Track, who reports everything is fine no matter what's actually happening, and The Phantom Deadline, a due date nobody remembers agreeing to. I need the first character illustrated and the bookmark designed. Eight more if it goes well. _What I Need_ A double-sided bookmark, 3.5" × 8" trim, 0.125" bleed, 300 DPI, CMYK, print-ready. _Design Considerations_ Front is the character. My starting idea is a police mugshot: full-length figure against a height chart, name across the bottom. Back is clean and typographic. A short list of the nine character names, one line of copy, and my contact details. No illustration. If you have a better idea, I'm open to it. This is just a starting point. _I'll Provide_ I'll give you the final copy. Palette, layout, and typography are yours. I've got a mockup from ChatGPT if you want to confirm direction, but I don't want to overly influence your design choices, so I'm not attaching. _Style Direction_ Modern Dick Tracy. Flat color, heavy black linework, hard shadows, no gradients or soft rendering. Darker and more muted than the originals, but not black-and-white Sin City. Each character is built on a single exaggerated feature. Mister On-Track has a grin that's too wide, eyes that are too wide, and a clipboard where every line is checked. One visual gag per character. That constraint is what keeps nine characters legible as a set. Everything else is open. _One Note_ This first card is also a template. If we continue, the background, the name treatment, and the back layout stay locked while only the figure changes, so please design it knowing eight more figures with different silhouettes have to work in the same frame.

  • Less than 30 hrs/week
    Hourly
  • < 1 month
    Duration
  • Intermediate
    Experience Level
  • $15.00

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    $50.00

    Hourly
  • Remote Job
  • One-time project
    Project Type
Skills and Expertise
Mandatory skills
Layout Design
Graphic Design
Activity on this job
  • Proposals:Less than 5
  • Last viewed by client:last week
  • Hires:
    2
  • Interviewing:
    4
  • Invites sent:
    9
  • Unanswered invites:
    2
About the client
Member since Sep 12, 2012
  • United States
    Milwaukee5:23 AM
  • $13K total spent
    16 hires, 3 active
  • 295 hours

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