10.17.08

The Criterion Collection Vampyr packaging

Packaging, Consumer

With its rolling fogs, ominous scythes and foreboding echoes, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent film Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares. The DVD menus and packaging, which consisted of a slipcase, liner notes booklet, a digipack and reproduction of the films source material were designed to reflect the atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery. Using the existing archival on-set photography as well as screen grabs and the recreation of the typeface used on the films’s intertitles, The Boland Design Company created a layered, not quite Victorian, not quite modern voice for this great film.

Sarah Habibi, The Criterion Collection, art director; Michael Boland, designer; F. Ron Miller, custom type rendering.

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