Return to Sender

Job Title: Graphic Designer

Director: Russell Goldman

Production Designer: Lisa Dooley


Return to Sender is a horror short film about a woman show gets caught up in a delivery scam to disastrous results. My main task was to help the team build and establish the fictional e-commerce website that would appear throughout the film; I provided them not only with templates they could alter and customize in post production, but also with interactive screens they could have the actor interact with on set. A lot of the tension of the film comes from reviews and notifications that periodically appear on the actor’s phone; it was really rewarding to work on assets that were so integral to the telling of the story.

Using a particular popular site for inspiration, I had to make a version with branding that was distinct enough to be legally cleared for use. This started with an original logo for “smirk” and ballooned into lots of iterations of product pages, checkout windows, and more. For moments when the actor would be interacting with the site practically, these had to be prepared for use both on a laptop and an iPhone.

Logo concepts

Smirk Select Logo

Guardrail Select Logo

Smirk App Icon

Smirk Website Interfaces on laptop

Additional iPhone UI (Static & Interactive)

Smirk Website on iPhone (Interactive, Scrollable)

Fictional Banking Site

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