Beautiful Boxes
The folks at Criterion designed a nifty package for their edition of the low budget monster movie Equinox. At first I thought Charles Burns drew the art, but it looks like it was appropriated off the movie’s poster art (or maybe a bitchin’ back issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland). The type treatment is very effective. Man, it would be a dream come true to design stuff for them.
Dazed and Confused is another recent Criterion title that got a great box design. The DVD packaging was made to look like a 1970s high school notebook covered in doodles — perfect. I remember, when that movie came out, being disappointed that whoever designed the poster used Emigré’s Template Gothic for the title font. A hip choice back in 1993, but utterly wrong for that film!
