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Criterion Collection Art Director Breaks Down the Eye-Catching Designs to ‘The Grifters, ‘The Piano’ and More
Criterion Collection's art director Eric Skillman breaks down some famous designs.
Skillman speaks with Variety about the process of the cover art coming together, and below he breaks down the ideas behind some Criterion designs and illustrations. Their ideas are often better than ours because that’s why you work with great creative people, and then it’s a fairly standard back-and-forth approval process from there, as far as they send sketches and we make notes and get results. Yhis idea of trying to build a fractured sense of self out of the bits and pieces of your life story really resonated with us, and that just seemed to fit so perfectly with what Matt does in all of his work.
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