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Odette Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Part of the Vintage Classics series for Studiocanal, Odette is Blu-ray and DVD inlay and O-ring sleeves. The brief was to portray Odette as a strong female lead character that previous sleeves had failed to represent. Making use of supplied poster artwork for the title treatment, I researched the film’s old posters (finding some beautiful…
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The Prince Of Darkness Collector’s Edition
Prince Of Darkness Collector’s Edition for StudioCanal. The 4 Disc UHD and Blu-ray Collector’s Edition features poster artwork, art cards, a 48 page booklet and soundtrack. John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements across the slipcase, digital and the 48-page booklet. Deep in the basement…
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Psychology Book Covers 5
A number of Psychology titles dealing with Psychoanalysis for Routledge. I had absolutely no idea what to focus on for Contemporary Bionian Theory and Technique in Psychoanalysis, but sometimes plugging away can result in a really successful sleeve.
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Psychology Book Covers 3
Some of the more abstract Psychology book covers for Routledge. I think that the covers for Advanced Research Methods for Applied Psychology and A Student’s Dictionary of Psychology and Neuroscience successfully combine the need of an academic textbook that visual stimulates and I love the vibrant colours of the former.
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Routledge Language Book Covers 2
A varied selection of Language and Language Learning titles for Routledge.
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Escape From New York Collector’s Edition UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Escape From New York Collector’s Edition UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging fro StudioCanal. The 4 Disc Collector’s Edition features poster artwork, art cards, a 48 page booklet and soundtrack. The artwork for this John Carpenter classic features the marvellous artwork of Matt Ferguson and was adapted to feature on the front of the sleeves as well as…
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The Prince Of Darkness UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Prince Of Darkness UHD, Blu-ray and DVD Packaging for StudioCanal. John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness uses the fantastic artwork of Matt Ferguson across the front cover and takes elements to use on the back. The regular issues gave us the headache of fitting the images into the different formats and matching the style on the reverse. Deep…
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The Deer Hunter Collector’s Edition UHD and BD Packaging
StudioCanal’s The Deer Hunter Collector’s Edition UHD and BD Packaging. The artwork adapted the fantastic illustration from Johnny Dombrowski (see his other work for the Agatha Christie titles). The stripped back nature of the artwork really captures the rawness of the film and the restricted use of red brings out the key elements. There are number…
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The Dam Busters Collector’s Edition BD and DVD Packaging
The Dam Busters Collector’s Edition BD and DVD Packaging Vintage Classic for StudioCanal. To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the original World War II raid, ‘Operation Chastise’ The Dam Busters was released as a Collector’s Edition 5 disc box, including posters, art cards and booklet, as well as digitally restored individual Blu-ray and DVD sleeves. Using…
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The Breadwinner Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Press Advert and Digital Assets
The Breadwinner Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Press Advert and Digital Assets for StudioCanal. Having previously worked on The Secret of Kells and loved Song of The Sea, I was delighted to be able to work on The Breadwinner, another animation from Cartoon Saloon. It was a joy to get the images through and look in…
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The Avengers – Tunnel Of Fear (TV Series) DVD Packaging
The Avengers – Tunnel Of Fear (TV Series) DVD Packaging, including 64 page booklet for StudioCanal. The initial designs for this release featured a commissioned illustration, however, the initial image was dropped in favour of a photograph composition. The style of previous The Avengers packaging was followed, using the circular them as a holding device…
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The Mercy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Assets and Press Adverts
The Mercy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Assets and Press Adverts for StudioCanal. The artwork featured a straight adaptation from theatrical posters. Adjustments were made to the position of the Colin and Rachel in order to accommodate the title, cast and quotes. Academy Award winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service) portrays the…
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The Lost City Of Z Blu-ray and DVD packaging, and Digital
Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, and Digital assets for the StudioCanal release of The Lost City of Z. An adaptation of the theatrical artwork, the packaging features an additional centre strip and bottom image to promote the film’s action element. The original bottom section is carried over to the disc on-bodies and some digital files, depending…
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The Big Sick Blu-ray and DVD packaging, and Digital Assets
The Big Sick Blu-ray and DVD packaging, and digital assets for StudioCanal. The packaging for this release was based on the theatrical artwork, but with slight tweaks to make the title treatment brighter. The DVD sleeve works brilliantly in a yellow Amaray case, matching the brighter title treatment. The design was adapted for the digital…
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Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Ice Cold In Alex Blu-ray and DVD packaging for the StudioCanal Vintage Classics 60th Anniversary release. The Vintage Classic releases for StudioCanal have a distinctive style (fro other examples see them here), using areas of flatter colour that resemble vintage posters. The packaging fro Ice Cold in Alex followed this style with a colour palette that conveys…
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Gold Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital and Promotion
Gold Blu-ray and DVD Packaging, Digital Download, Print press advertisements and Social Media Promotion for StudioCanal. The packaging was an adaptation from theatrical artwork with the addition of special finishes on the O-ring packaging for the Blu-ray and DVD. These were printed on silverboard with a white base in certain areas, the yellow printing directly…
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Bunuel Boxset and Belle De Jour Packaging
Bunuel: The Essential Collection boxset and Belle De Jour Blu-ray and DVD packaging from StudioCanal. Belle De Jour is a World Cinema release and uses the international artwork on the Blu-ray and DVD packaging. Bunuel: The Essential Collection is part of The Auteur Collection from StudioCanal (along with Godard and Melvile). The packaging combines elements from international artwork…
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The Agatha Christie Collection Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Agatha Christie Collection from StudioCanal is a set of films, released individually, as Vintage Classics on Blu-ray and DVD. The films making up the collection are Death On The Nile, Murder On The Orient Express, Evil Under The Sun and The Mirror Crack’d. The release of these four films featured the fantastic artwork of Johnny Dombrowski. These…
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The Goose Steps Out Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Goose Steps Out is a StudioCanal Vintage Classic and part of the Ealing Studios Digitally Restored collection. Comedy legend Will Hay stars as William Potts, a hapless, clumsy schoolteacher, who just happens to be an identical body double for a notorious German Nazi general. When the army is made aware of this uncanny resemblance to the German,…
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Manchester By The Sea Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Monday sees the release of the Oscar®-winning (Bafta® and Golden Globe® as well) Manchester by the Sea. Casey Affleck* (Gone Baby Gone) stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler, Carol, The Wolf of Wall Street) forces him to return to the hometown he abandoned years before.…
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Mandy Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Mandy is a Digitally Restored Ealing Studios film, part of the StudioCanal Vintage Classic collection. Nominated for 6 BAFTAs in 1952, Ealing classic Mandy is the heart-rending adaptation of Hilda Lewis’s novel The Day is Ours, from acclaimed director Alexander Mackendrick (Whisky Galore!, The Man in the White Suit). Born deaf, Mandy (Mandy Miller) is mute for most…
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The Proud Valley Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The print files for The Proud Valley left Rogue Four Towers recently. A Studio Canal Vintage Classic title from 1940, it features the wonderful singing voice of Paul Robeson and tells the story of a small Welsh mining community dealing with the closure of the local pit, a story that will resonate with many. The look of this title works…
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The Man Between Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
A digitally restored Vintage Classic from Studio Canal, The Man Between is a later collaboration between James Mason and Carol Reed, often considered a companion piece to The Third Man thanks to its atmospheric portrayal of a city struggling to survive in a grim post-war reality of poverty and mistrust. The action is here transposed to a divided Berlin,…
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Crossed Anchors Brewing
Crossed Anchors Brewing began life when multiple award-winning brewer and publican duo Paddy O’Riordan and Ollie Bainbridge joined forces and launched a brand new brewing company in Exmouth. With the beer initially produced through “cuckoo” brewing (using spare capacity in an existing brewery), the pair now have a six barrel brewery in The Grapevine’s old stables in Exmouth town…
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Israel and South Africa Book Cover
In Israel and South Africa, Ilan Pappé brings together lawyers, journalists, policy makers and historians of both countries to assess the implications of the apartheid analogy for international law and political activism. With contributors including the distinguished anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils, the book offers a bold and incisive perspective on one of the defining moral questions of our age.…
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Zed Books Environment Book Covers
Breathing Space by Mark Everard and Understanding Energy and Energy Policy by Timothy F. Braun and Lisa M. Glidden are both Environment titles from Zed Books. Both titles I think work extremely well as simple, clear sleeves that get the message across. Breathing Space is a favourite of mine, I love the colours of the image and the negative…
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Zed Books Development Book Covers
Three Development titles from Zed Books. The Crises Of Microcredit (edited by Isabelle Guérin, Marc Labie and Jean-Michel Servet), Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization (edited by Dominique Caouette and Dip Kapoor), and Masculinities Under Neoliberalism (edited by Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris and Nancy Lindisfarne). The Crises Of Microcredit uses the scan of an exclamation mark (from a woodblock…
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Routledge Video Game Book Covers 1
Inside The Video Game Industry by Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister, Randy Nichols, and Ryan Kaufman offers a provocative look into one of today’s most dynamic and creative businesses. Through in-depth structured interviews, industry professionals discuss their roles, providing invaluable insight into game programming, art, animation, design, production, quality assurance, audio, and business professions. Global Games by Aphra Kerr provides a…
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Swallows and Amazons Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
This week saw the release of Swallows and Amazons on Blu-ray and DVD. An enchanting new take on the beloved novel by Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing out on their own to a local island, only to find themselves in a…
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The Sara Jones Cycle – Dead In Time
Dead In Time is first book from the The Sara Jones Cycle, a paranormal thriller written by Terence Bailey, it’s published by Accent Press. The book focuses on a psychologist based in London and Wales, so these places were the main sources of images used in the visuals. The main essence of the brief was that this was…
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The Blue Lamp Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
The Blue Lamp is an Ealing Studios Vintage Classic title from StudioCanal. An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden’s The Blue Lamp was scripted by ex-policeman T.E.B Clark, the writer who arguably did most to define Ealing Studio’s post-war identity. The film marked the first appearance of the character, PC George Dixon – later to be immortalised in…
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Tickled DVD Packaging
Q: A film about Tickling?A: A film about Tickling. Tickled. After stumbling upon a bizarre “competitive endurance tickling” video online, wherein young men are paid to be tied up and Tickled, reporter David Farrier reaches out to request a story from the company. But the reply he receives is shocking—the sender mocks Farrier’s sexual orientation and…
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Room Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Room is based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue and featuring an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance from Brie Larson. One of the most acclaimed films of 2016 and Directed by Academy Award nominee Lenny Abrahamson, Room is an intensely powerful and wonderfully life-affirming journey about the power of love, limitless…
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Lion In Winter Blu-ray and DVD packaging
Lion In Winter is a Vintage Classic from StudioCanal, featuring a very impressive cast of (the Oscar Winning) Katharine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton. Filmed in 1968 and directed by Anthony Harvey it’s the story of King Henry II’s obsession with finding a new successor to his thrown. I originally worked on…
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Legend Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland, LEGEND is the blistering crime thriller which tells the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ronnie Kray, both played by Tom Hardy in a powerhouse double performance. It such a nice feeling receiving an email asking you to work on a film you’re already…
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Legend Limited Edition Steelbook
The artwork for the Legend Steelbook followed on from the Legend Blu-ray and DVD artwork, but uses the artwork from some early teaser posters. To set it apart from the other formats this artwork used a slightly different colour palette and graphic content. The Steelbook uses the emboss area to frame the graphic treatment. Steelbook designs…
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Hiroshima Mon Amour Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Hiroshima Mon Amour is Alain Resnais’ 1959 groundbreaking first feature, a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. Featuring Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada it’s the story of a brief and passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. This was a catalogue release for the 4K restoration of the film. The visuals for…
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The Happiest Days Of Your Life Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Creating the artwork for The Happiest Days Of Your Life on Blu-ray and DVD O-rings was a pleasure to work on. Featuring the wonderful actors Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford and Joyce Grenfell, it also features artwork by the brilliant Ronald Searle. The artwork is based on a old poster that featured the illustrations of Ronald Searle, however, this artwork only existed…
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Hannibal Season 1-3 Boxset Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
Hot on the heels of Season 3 (well, done at the same time actually), came the Season 1-3 boxset. Featuring all the usual suspects, the challenge for Hannibal Season 1-3 boxset was to use some new imagery, or treat something existing in a new way. The original images from the first season had been used…
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Hannibal Season 3 Blu-ray and DVD Packaging
I’d worked on Seasons 1 and 2, so it was just a matter of time before Hannibal Season 3 came out of the shadows. I’d been keeping an eye out on the artwork that was being teased when the series was screened and it was a bit of a different mood to the first and second series…