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METHOD® · Jun 21, 2026

Dissected: Corpse Paint

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We sat down with Andy Pearson to take apart Corpse Paint, the collab Liquid Death made with e.l.f. Cosmetics. We wanted to get at the choices behind it, from why the two brands paired up at all to how taking corpse-paint seriously made the joke even funnier.

Andy walked us through the whole thing, choice by choice. The full dissection is on the site as a single 15-minute breakdown. Below are a few of the highlights.

In the full dissection, we covered:

Chapter One

Sometimes, the Unlikely Partner Is the Right One

Chapter Two

Why They Chose Corpse Paint as the Collab Idea

Chapter Three

On How Taking It Seriously Makes It Funnier

Chapter Four

On the Choices Behind the Film Script

Chapter Five

On Fighting for the Right Ending

Chapter Six

On Creating a World for the Brand to Exist In

Chapter Seven

On the Choices Behind the Package Design

Chapter Eight

On Learning to Stay More Open to Collabs

If you liked taking this one apart, here are a couple more pieces we dissected.

Pedro Izique dissects the key choices behind Nike’s most provocative recent anthem. He gets into Kobe Mentality as the North Star, Building the Script Around Each Athlete, and Why Kim Was the Director Gehrig Right Choice. Watch it on the site.

Hal Curtis breaks down the key choices behind his most iconic Coke and Nike films. He gets into How the Choices on Set Led to Nike Hacky Sack, How Hacky Sack Ended up Leading to Freestyle, and Core Choices in the Making of Freestyle. Watch it on the site.

The whole point of METHOD® is to bring clarity on how great creative work is actually made. We hope you walk away from this newsletter with at least one thing you can put to work in your own method.

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