This was a packaging collaboration with one of the most revered artist and illustrators working today, and the brief was unusually demanding: build a collectible package worthy of fine art, in direct partnership with the artist himself. As package lead, I owned the structural development, pack-out direction, and logo design, and worked side by side with James Jean to translate his artwork into a worthy packaging structure.

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The central design problem was duality. Jean's He-Man arrived in floral, jade-toned armor for harmony, his Skeletor in coral, blood-red detail for rage, two halves of one meditation on good and evil. I built the packaging to carry that opposition into the structure itself, engineering the two window boxes so they combine into a single larger composition when displayed together, a layout we developed in conversation with the source artwork and the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Across the outer boxes and inserts, I laid in his art and hidden details to reward the collectors who study every inch.

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The real work was collaboration under high stakes: protecting an artist's vision while solving for structure, production, and the demands of a shipped product across global markets. Holding that balance, creative integrity on one side and manufacturing reality on the other, is the heart of what I do. The result drew acclaim as a collection that elevates Masters of the Universe to fine art.