Cover and packaging design for The Criterion Collection release of Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Teorema is very scientific in its approach to its subjects. Pasolini uses the family as his subjects and Terrance Stamp’s mysterious stranger as his variable in his experiment towards enlightenment.

We wanted to explore that scientific approach through the design of the cover referencing mathematical theorems and science textbooks as inspiration. Stamp’s stranger is represented as the color blue throughout the film which helped inform the image treatments.

Credits
Creative Direction - Nessim Higson