Visions from the Upside Down: Stranger Things Art Book

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Things are going to be getting a little stranger under the streets of New York City this July, with IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Stranger Things. The initial call was them talking to us about some of the film titles that they liked. They referenced Richard Greenberg and all the greats that he’d created – The Goonies, Altered States, Alien, The Untouchables, The Dead Zone, just to name a few. That was great to hear because we understood where they were coming from. That was really refreshing – and pretty surprising – that these creators knew so much about title design. Stranger Things first season was released in 2016, and immediately became one of the most successful Netflix projects. The mystical thriller tells the story of the small town of Hawkins. Teenagers hunting monsters. Unknown girl with supernatural powers. Strange laboratories where they make secret experiments. Parallel worlds and more.

Visions from the Upside Down: A Stranger Things Art Book

Michelle: A friend of mine who works here recently showed me this amazing artist named Henrique Oliveira. He’s a Brazilian artist who does all of these things with what looks like wood. I just saw that yesterday and was like wow! Del Rey Books Visions from the Upside Down: Stranger Things Artbook is an upcoming artbook dedicated to the Netflix original series Stranger Things. It will feature artwork created by over 200 artists from the comic, illustration, fine art, video game, and animation industries. It will be released on October 15, 2019. [1]When Will Byers finds himself in the Upside Down, an impossible dark parody of his own world, he is understandably frightened. But that's nothing compared to the fear that takes hold when he realizes what's in that world with him! Michelle: There’s something about having a purely typographic sequence that’s a dream to any designer. We’ve tried to sell a similar idea many times, so for somebody to actually appreciate typography and the power of type on screen is refreshing. It’s so simple, but simple is sometimes the hardest. It really is the best of all possible worlds. The music is amazing and the show is great. All the ingredients really work together. Another miniseries called Stranger Things: Kamchatka was later produced, written by Michael Moreci. This miniseries takes place in the Soviet Union, and follows a scientist forced to weaponize a captured Demogorgon against his will, by the maniacal Dr. Karine. A further miniseries entitled The Many Ghosts of Dr. Brenner is also in the works. Michelle: Eric used that as reference, so we could look at what sort of quality that would have and find things that we wouldn’t have thought of. For example, the tiny bits of grain on the letters themselves or the imperfect edges or the different colour values that came through the red film because the light was hitting it a certain way. While we didn’t actually use that as the final, it was part of our process. All those little things helped inform our animation. Michelle: [laughs] Yeah, we recast! So then we had to find the most beautiful pieces of Benguiat. The other typeface maybe had nicer counters or serifs, but we had to switch things around to find the most beautiful parts of Benguiat.

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Michelle: I don’t know that I thought that much about it, but I did think like, “Wow! OK, they’re referencing Richard Greenberg so this has got to be good because he’s one of the best.” When I first worked here – when I first freelanced – it was R/GA. So I remember hearing him and his brother’s names a lot and seeing Robert Greenberg in the offices. I definitely looked up to them, you know? Where the young man has gone and exactly who – or what – is responsible for his disappearance is a mystery to his friends and family, but answers may lie in the secretive government lab just outside of town – or perhaps somewhere in-between. It’s up to Will’s intrepid friends, his dogged mother and brother, a washed up cop, and a strange girl to discover the truth of what’s lurking below the surface of their seemingly normal town. The Stranger Things opening is not only a fitting successor to a reveredtitle design tradition, but a testament to the power of type in motion and the enormous potency of nostalgia.The company you’re with, Imaginary Forces, began as R/GA LA, the Greenberg brothers’ company, which essentially makes the Stranger Things titles a direct descendant of those iconic Greenberg openings. Did carrying on that design pedigree weigh on your mind while you were working on this?