Essential Fellini

Blu-ray Package Design, Book Design, and Lettering

Role

Blu-ray Package Design, Book Design,
and Lettering

CLIENT

The Criterion Collection
Art Directed by Eric Skillman

Illustration

Box Cover and Disc Book Cover illustrations by Abigail Giuseppe

I’m thrilled to share ESSENTIAL FELLINI, a project I’ve been working on throughout the pandemic for one of my favorite clients, The Criterion Collection.

I designed everything in the deluxe packaging that contains a colorful disc book of 14 theatrical features and 2 highly-designed books: a guide to the films and a book of essays. I also redesigned individual film titles for all 14 films and recreated the most iconic ones like “La Dolce Vita” and “8 1/2,” of course

The box cover and disc book feature illustrations by the wonderful Abigail Giuseppe.

The theme of the set is inspired by Fellini’s dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. The design is inspired by the cinematic universe he created: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage.

Here’s a sneak peek of what’s inside, plus a few of the faux covers I designed for criterion.com. There are many more components that I can’t wait to share and I want to keep them as a surprise to be revealed when it’s released on November 24th. I’ve been called a “border queen” because of my love of decorative borders and I certainly lived up to that title for this project.

Box Cover and Spine

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DISC BOOK COVER ILLUSTRATED BY ABIGAIL GiuSEPPE

Book Covers in their wells

Guide to the Films

 
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Book of Essays

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Faux Covers for www.criterion.com

Trailer made by criterion

One hundred years after his birth, Federico Fellini still stands apart as a giant of the cinema. The Italian maestro is defined by his dualities: the sacred and the profane, the masculine and the feminine, the provincial and the urbane. He began his career working in the slice-of-life poetry of neorealism, and though he soon spun off on his own freewheeling creative axis, he never lost that grounding, evoking his dreams, memories, and obsessions on increasingly grand scales in increasingly grand productions teeming with carnivalesque imagery and flights of phantasmagoric surrealism while maintaining an earthy, embodied connection to humanity. Bringing together fourteen of the director’s greatest spectacles, all beautifully restored, this centenary box set is a monument to an artist who conjured a cinematic universe all his own: a vision of the world as a three-ring circus in which his innermost infatuations, fears, and fantasies take center stage. https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3626-essential-fellini