HITMAN: THE BOARD GAME

I had the opportunity to contribute to this cover as part of the team at MOOD Publishing.

[Art Direction: Jacob Møller}
[Artists: Idun Sjödin, François Bourdin, Milo te Lintelo}
[My contribution: Early cover concepts, composition, character painting & general polish]

A collaborative cover project developed with the team. We explored various compositions and cover styles, from more graphic “comic-book” approaches to classic “character type” posters. In the end, we moved towards an ensemble-driven composition that brings together iconic characters and locations from the Hitman universe.

Hitman’s visual identity is often associated with minimal, sleek and monochromatic compositions, and we explored that direction as well. For this project, however, we actually decided to move away from that more restrained approach in favor of something more colorful, energetic and content-rich.

This direction focused on creating a cover with strong shelf impact, using the environments and character poses to add a sense of action and variety while showcasing the game’s cast and giving the viewer a sense of the amount of content within the board game.

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