Project Overview
Art Direction, Branding, Illustration, Print
Tales from Kwaidan is a self-directed illustration project that I conceived of with the goal of visually retelling Masaki Kobayashi’s 1965 Japanese anthology horror film Kwaidan, which is based on four excerpted ghost stories compiled by Lafcadio Hearn in his Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, published in 1904.
Final Product
This project culminated in a matte softcover book/magazine and large format posters. The overarching style was inspired by Victorian gothic art, the shape language of illustrator Rokas Aleliunas, and blackletter typefaces that introduce a modern, European, storybook feel throughout.