Oh man The Longest Journey one is absolutely gorgeous.

Deus Ex = Jizz

Why can't all cover be more artistic as these?

@Erazo

I completely agree.

I wonder what an even more stylized Borderlands box would look like? FAP.

That IS a cool thing to do.

I wonder if as the whole limited edition trend continues on it's course we'll see some alternate edition covers that are actually good.
Also once/if digital distubution really takes off actually owning a physical copy will only appeal to collectors who'll pay extra for cool artwork and stuff.

For the record.

All this artwork is stolen.

He's just slapped his format over the top of it.

I almost mistook the call of duty one for Fallout 3 because when you look at the picture from far away it looks like the enclave.

@Monster Thank you for pointing that out. His text work is absolutely horrible, too. These are nowhere near the caliber of the good entries out there, and that's not just including Olly's. NeoGAF's thread has some amazing ideas. This guy's work looks like he dicked around for an hour.

"Why can't all cover be more artistic as these?" Because publishers are afraid of something different. Despite the fact that that's what makes most great designs great, they want to stick with the kind of designs that have been proven to help sell their games, even if it doesn't necessarily translate into more sales for their titles. The whole ephemeral 'photomanipulation' technique is the style of the day.

I'm with Monster. This guy is using the copyrighted work of others (and I mean far from just using existing game titles as the subject of his work), and his typography terrible. I wouldn't mind so much if he used stock images, but using the copyrighted works of others is not impressive at all.

jus10j, I wouldn't even say an hour. Once you find a good image, lay out the type as lazily as he has, and export, I'd say even with image searching a half-hour tops for each piece, if that. Using his "techniques", I probably could ban each one out in a matter of 15 minutes a peice, at the most.

What makes these Criterion Collection artwork knockoffs great are typically well executed concepts that rely on the hard work of the creator to create something wholly original. Don't get me wrong, I love these kinds of artwork redesigns, shit, I even tried starting a thread here in the forums that garnered the interest of about 4 people. But this guy's work is not impressive to me in the slightest.

@Poopface (Great name, BTW) Nice points made. I also like spaecsick's approach to film with his "I Can Read Movies" series. Completely trumps this guy. And by an hour, I meant total!

I like how this guy has info about the games on his flicker, but he doesn't give any names or links of the real authors who made these paintings wich he is using for those covers...

oh wow soo pretty. kinda wish they were just a bit bigger.

hmm... Now I'm inspired to go play with photoshop

@Monster Hmm didn't know what has he stolen then? I would love to know.

http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=20363


what about everyone else

These are fucking amazing.

I'm liking that Darkstalkers one. :O)

@ tragicallyhipster the paintings he uses for covers are not by its the work of other painters, you just can go around artforums and take other painter works from their portofolios

Eh... dont' like a lot of them... font looks like shit on most, a couple are ok though.

fuck... i meant - the paintings he uses for covers are not by him its the work of other painters, you just cant go around artforums and take other painter works from their portofolios

He could have tried to not rip off the Criterion box layout exactly. If you take away the artwork that other people created for him, there is very little design work at all put into these.