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Possibly one of the strangest aspects of David Lynch’s 1984 Dune was the promotional memorabilia associated with it. The production studio behind the film seemed unsure whether to target Dune as a darker film for an older audience, or as their own attempt at a family focused Star Wars saga. Enter the Dune Coloring & Activity Books, written by Arlene Block and illustrated by Michael Nicastre.

The cover of the coloring book features 1984 Dune’s Albertus logo with a modified U. The subtitle is in all-caps ITC Isbell.

Juxtaposing lines of Melior typical to children’s coloring books with strange illustrations of scenes from Lynch's films, the coloring book breaches the absurd.

Even more absurd is the activity book pages, featuring type with psychedelic appearing illustrations and blue text. One section features a Dune themed recipe.

See more images from the books on the Coilhouse blog. A digitized copy of the Coloring Book is available at the Internet Archive.

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ITC Isadora is the primary typeface used by BellaCasara. The script by Kris Holmes is used for the logo and on the packaging, with a shadow effect that doubles down on the split strokes of Isadora’s capitals. BellaCasara is a brand by Quality Cheese, a Canadian manufacturer and retailer of Italian specialty cheese products.

The secondary logo font for “Quality Cheese” is ITC Benguiat. Myriad is used for the product info.

The burrata package shows another secondary logo font that looks like Century Oldstyle. The bilingual product info here is in ITC Isbell.

©Drug-dealers Ads (2017) is a reactive idea to the intense and constant insistence of drug dealers to sell substances to anyone in some of Lisbon’s neighbourhoods. Walking on the street and not being disturbed by these guys is a big challenge, avoiding them almost impossible.

We decided to design a series of drug dealer flyers and spread them all over the city. The main objective was to reduce the unwanted harassment by changing the verbal communication channel to a more visual and graphic one, adopting in each piece the persuasion expressions that these dealers use everyday.

* We are not friends of drug dealers. We don’t work for drug dealers. We are not drugs dealers. Just sometimes we buy to drugs-dealers.