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Tales of Mystery & Notification 🕯️🔴
What if Harry Clarke had illustrated our nightmares? In 1919 he drew Edgar Allan Poe's. I asked him to draw ours.
I went digging through the Public Domain Image Archive and found Clarke's 1919 plates for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: black-and-white ink by a Dublin stained-glass artist, all long pale fingers and dread. I trained ten of them into a Recraft style, Clarke Ink 1919.
Then I retold ten of Poe's tales as the horrors of the smartphone age. Each plate sits beside Clarke's original, and each caption is his own line with one word swapped: "the heart beat on with a muffled sound" became "the phone buzzed on". A man is buried alive in his inbox. The masked guest is a 99+ badge.
The only colour in the whole book is the red notification dot. The film ends inside Recraft, showing how it was made.
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Happy Halloween. The style is public, so try it yourself 👇
This is an example of how simple art can be turned into films.
Everything is so refined and polished. I genuinely wanna know how did you come up with this?
CANTIN | You know our coffee. Meet the neighbors.
I found John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838) on Wikimedia Commons and in the National Gallery of Art's open collection, hand-coloured engravings where every bird is drawn life-size on the plant it lives on. I cropped seven public-domain plates, without captions or plate numbers, and trained a Recraft V4 Style on them that I called Audubon Aves do Brasil. Audubon never painted Brazil, so I used his way of drawing on Brazilian birds that live around our coffee farms. To tie it together I created CANTIN, an invented Brazilian coffee brand with the campaign line "You know our coffee. Now meet the neighbors." That brand is the twist, since his plates now sell a 2026 coffee on the poster, the campaign seal, the labels, the tins and the kraft bags.
How the neighbors were made, in 30 seconds.