Memphis Zoo

Our souvenir licensee, known as Walking In Memphis, was asked by the Memphis Zoo to develop a poster that featured the zoo’s most popular animals. The art would be used to decorate gift items like mugs, magnets, postcards and posters.

The good folks at the zoo wanted us to create a poster featuring eight different animals, giving them all equal emphasis. The composition was challenging, since the scale of each animal is very different. Also, making all the colors work well took some special arranging.

We tried a few different compositions, and the solution which gave us the most freedom to collage together animals of very different sizes and colors was a radial design with the logo in the center and eight different “rays” or “slices” that each contained an animal.