Klaas van Kreis - tim burton

Who doesn’t love this quirky and weird, yet charming movie director? I definitely love him – each and every movie. Back in the days I had this course where we had to design a set of stamps and a logotype for a celebrity who would celebrate an anniversary this year. I picked Tim Burton and came up with this nice little folder that included a set of four stamps with illustrated heads of some of his movie characters, a postcard, a poster on the backside and a sliding card mechanism where you could put Tim’s head on the different bodies. So he could be Beetlejuice one moment, and the next he was Edward Scissorhands. I liked the idea of adding little extras to the package for the stamps. The stamps alone in a little box would have been quite unspectacular. I can’t remember if it was part of the exercise to add some informative text about the person, or not. At least that’s what all this text on the folder is about.

The proportions of the characters had to be all the same, so this sliding mechanism would work. Normally the martian would be much smaller and Jack Skellington’s legs would be longer ; )

For the logotype I created about 100 different variations and there were so many of them that I liked. For the lettering I decided to use an alternated handdrawn version of a font called “Mason”. I think they used it for his book “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy”, but I’m not sure. Anyhow, this font suits him just perfectly I think.

TECHNICAL DATA

TITLE: ›Tim Burton 50th Anniversary‹
MEDIUM: Stamps, folder, poster, DVD cover, booklet and slipcase
SPACE OF TIME: 2008
MENTORING: Prof. Klaus Paul
UNIVERSITY: HBK Braunschweig

PICTURE- AND TEXTCREDITS

ILLUSTRATIONS: Klaas van Kreis
TEXTS: A&E Television Networks