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Limited Run Games

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You’re always going to find me somewhere nerdy. If your function doesn’t have some crew of lovable oddballs, you can be sure I’ll start that group or you won’t find me there for long. So working with Limited Run Games fits the bill. A lot of passion and talented folks helping create new and fun editions of personal faves, cult classics and other games worthy of some love.

There’s a delicate balancing act of speed and quality when it comes to handling the production of these collector’s editions. You need to be able to hit the ground running with an already workable and proven concept or iterate quickly if you’re treading new territory, all the while keeping in mind the spirit of the product, the scope of productions capabilities, and the wants/needs of the partner. It’s dizzying keeping up, and you could get lost fine-tuning to death but you learn to let it go and see the light of day or leave it on the drafts shelves.

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Pulp Covers

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An experiment in reinterpretation. I asked for random prompts and made pulp-style covers for the phrases I was given.

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Alementary – Bottles and Cans

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I’ve been fortunate enough to have a brewery open so close to my living residence. It was only a matter time before I found a way to work for them.

As I worked with them for several years, I was blessed to work on and develop an eclectic style of labels for canned and bottle product.

Playing around in the label space was an education in layout, file organization, and communicating with vendors. In the hustle and bustle of brewing, timelines can drag and accelerate all the time, and it gave me experience honing my workable templates so that I can get to thumbnailing ideas quicker and worry less about spacing and placement of recurring elements.

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About Me

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Hello!

My name is Matthew Faustini, as you might’ve surmised from the whole “www.matthewfaustini.com” thing. I’m a graphic designer, vector illustrator, occasional writer, editor, social media manager and star of stage and screen*.

I’m an East-Coaster, born and raised in my ancestral homeland, New Jersey. I went to high school at Don Bosco Prep, a school more notorious for sports or academics where I decided to focus on the arts, primarily chorus and musical theater. Go figure. I went to college at Marist, a college on the banks of the Hudson River up in Poughkeepsie, NY. I continued with chorus, musical theater and delved further into digital art and design.

From layout work with Marvel comics, quick and fun caricatures for charity, to building a new site, I’m always striving to make new things and embellish my creative output.

I’m currently a graphic designer for Limited Run Games where I get to work with a broad spectrum of properties, building a colorful and compelling collection of accoutrements for physical game releases and corresponding Collector’s Editions. Every project is a new challenge and one I’m happy to take on.

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Caricatures

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As fundraiser for the charity 826 NYC, I did miniature avatar caricatures for nominal donations. It was a ton of fun and I’m glad I got to support an excellent cause.

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Credits and Recap Pages

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During my time with Marvel, much of my time was dedicated to processing newer acquisitions. Primarily when Disney acquired the rights to Star Wars, we had to make sure thousands of books were up-to-snuff for release on our digital platform, Marvel Unlimited.

This page was drafted under several revisions to serve as a replacement credits page for foreign translations of Marvel books. The file was composed primarily across Illustrator and InDesign, designed to be easily and quickly edited for any book.

This credits page was built in Illustrator from scratch to accommodate style from it’s original publication with the new trade standards under Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm All assets recreated by me, by hand.

The 1998 Star Wars comic series was not built with online release in mind. As such, most work files couldn’t be reclaimed. So this is nearly a note-for-note recreation of the credits page original seen in print, only now accounting for new publication information. Work was done mostly in Photoshop closing out in InDesign.

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Building a Cover

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One of the benefits of working with comics is making the covers. In this case, I got to build around our existing English covers for translated editions.