Visual Analysis Of Wicked

The playbill design for the Broadway musical Wicked, is a good example of graphic design. It is able to convey the attitude of the show through its imaging, paired with the title. The design works with a color scheme that consists of black, white, green, beige and a hint of red. The image shows two women, one in the middle who is seen head on and the other on the right, whose profile is seen. As one looks at the image ones eyes quickly go to the woman in the center who is composed of three colors, black, green and red. The eyes are drawn to the hint of deep red that is used to create a crooked smile, which is the only part that the viewer is able to see of her face. The image effectively uses color blocking to create her clothing, hair, and hat, which dips forward to partially obscure her face, which is made up of green, which can also be seen in the background.
The eyes then travel to the right side of the image, which depicts a woman who appears to be whispering into the green woman’s ear. With her hand covering her mouth, part of her face is obscured as well and all the viewer is able to see is the upper portion of her face. Her hat, hair, and clothing are made up of white, her skin beige, and black detailing for her eye and eyebrow. Then the eyes move to the bottom left corner of the image in which one can see the title of the play Wicked in bold white font,
It could be that the woman’s smirk is a response to something humorous that the woman in white said or possibly something a little wicked. The smirk on the green woman’s face also has the effect to determine the connotation of the title Wicked. Instead of seeming sinister and foreboding it instead implies that something a little more fantastic might take place in the play other than the green witch melting from a bucket of