Film by Design
Visual Research | 2025 - present
What happens when you paint a film frame and redesign it from the inside?
Film by Design is an ongoing personal project where I deconstruct iconic cinema through digital painting and typography. Each piece starts with a single frame, its composition, its light, its color logic, and rebuilds it as an image where painting and graphic design coexist.
Every piece is painted entirely in Photoshop and integrated with custom typography in Illustrator. The goal isn’t to recreate scenes. It’s to study how visual storytelling works at the level of a single image — rhythm, mood, and the design decisions that define a film’s atmosphere.
La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001).
Disorder as choreography. I built rhythm into the composition by focusing on the relationships between the characters, revealing a hidden order within the apparent chaos.
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
Toy Story (Pixar, 1995)
Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006)
Each piece is a study in visual structure: how a director uses color temperature, value contrast, and spatial composition to carry narrative without dialogue. The painting process forces a slower, more analytical engagement with the image than simply watching the film allows.
Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino
Le Mépris (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Color Studies
Color Study - The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Color Study - Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006)
