Visualizing Childhood Creative Influences: A Poster

I’ve grown up with a lot of influences, mostly related to reading. We redid our house in 2015 and when doing so, I decided not to use my commercial poster collection and instead create a new poster, entirely charting my influences via a “collage” of sorts. My sister offered the chance to do this because she suggested that we could use a glass door for the wardrobe of my room.

I made the poster using Gimp, and I printed it out to scale at a print shop, quite an expensive ordeal.

I wanted to share this somewhere so I could keep track of the changes. However, the master file is so large that I’m keeping it in Dropbox, the original location. An Explanation

The idea was to visualize what I’ve grown up reading and/or watching from my childhood. My primary influences, as you can see, are comics. I discovered comics as a child, reading them at my father’s office in a supermarket in Bahrain. (Jawad Cold Stores!)

From top to bottom, the poster follows a lightly chronological flow, from left to right even. I plan to write a separate page on analysing this but for now this should suffice.

The second idea is that this is my adaptation of the Where’s Wally concept. Find the Pink Panther!