In seems that reworking old videogame covers in styles popularized by artsy fartsy books and movies is the new cool thing to do. For the cynical, it might seem like internet hivemind, but I can spot a good concept when I see it. The house that Olly Moss so nicely built has seen the likes of NeoGAF and Something Awful move in, and the results are often pretty nice.
The newest contributions to the alternative box art scene (Is there such a scene? If not, there should be) come courtesy of DJ Malloc, who presents his "Paradigm Collection." DJ Malloc's brand of alt-box art is inspired by the Criterion Collection line of DVDs, and all of his covers happen to be in the proper aspect ratio for a DVD case. So fire up that dusty printer and try them out since they're all quite good.
In the header image, you'll see a war pigs-inspired Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare cover alongside a Deus Ex sleeve ripped straight out your favorite Asimov novel. Lastly, there's a Vampire Chronicles cover that is interesting for two reasons: the anime style is totally different from the rest of the collection, and the source material happens to be the UDON Darkstalkers Tribute book, to which Paul Robertson also contributed.
The rest of DJ Malloc's alternative covers can be found on his Flickr page.
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1:00 AM on 08.15.2009
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I completely agree.
I wonder what an even more stylized Borderlands box would look like? FAP.
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.
All this artwork is stolen.
He's just slapped his format over the top of it.
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.
hmm... Now I'm inspired to go play with photoshop
what about everyone else