Typography, Editorial Design / 2026
Tools [ InDesign, Photoshop ]
A retrospective catalog dedicated to the films of David Fincher. The visual concept was inspired by the visual language of crime archives, police files, evidence folders, and psychological investigation.
Fincher’s films often deal with obsession, control, violence, surveillance, and the search for hidden patterns. I wanted the catalog to feel like an open case file — something analytical, dark, fragmented, and slightly unsettling. The design combines cinematic stills, muted color palettes, grid structures, red markings, blurred imagery, and archival references to create a printed object that reflects the tension and precision of Fincher’s world.
Visual Research
The research focused on Fincher’s recurring visual themes: darkness, surveillance, investigation, controlled compositions, muted colors, and psychological tension. These references shaped the catalog as a visual archive rather than a traditional film book. The moodboard combines film stills, color studies, editorial references, and archival crime-file aesthetics. It helped define the catalog’s atmosphere: precise, restrained, and investigative.
Grid Development
The first sketches explored the catalog’s grid system — testing how text, film stills, and visual fragments could be organized like evidence within a case file.
