Criterion & Eclipse Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.4

[med]

Lovely, but isn't two decorative fonts side by side like that a basic graphic design no-no?

[mfunk9786]

I wouldn't necessarily call the top font "decorative."

[med]

Decorative, stylized, etc. A minor quibble, though.

[Matt]

Lovely, but isn't two decorative fonts side by side like that a basic graphic design no-no?

Yes. I made the same point when the cover image first showed up. I guess I can live with it, though.

[domino harvey]

Just put black electrical tape over the text on the cover

[MyNameCriterionForum]

Should have used Comic Sans

[Flike]

Mm, tweed.

[HarryLong]

Lovely, but isn't two decorative fonts side by side like that a basic graphic design no-no?

Only for the unimaginative...

[fdm]

Those graphic design no-nos are so 20th Century...

[Norbie]

That "Josef...." picture is a tease. [-X If you already have the product in "your" hands, why does it take another month to get them to retailers? Don't take my ramblings to seriously...... i just want to complain about something. The set does look very nice..... if only the font....... But i can already see in the future a set in my hands, looking lovely.

[HistoryProf]

so everyone who works there gets a copy of everything they put out? is that one of the perks? I'd take that in lieu of health insurance if they gave me a job!

we get shipments in the office because we give copies to all the people who worked on them — writers, composers, designers, and Criterion staff, of course!

[Steven H]

I'm glad that picture was posted. I was thinking for a while that a proper boxset of silent Sternberg's might have been something I just dreamt.

[HistoryProf]

I really love the spine of the set...it's perfect. And for some reason the two fonts work perfectly - the exact opposite of my reaction to the boring Paths of Glory gradient treatment. It's all very pretty and I want it. now.

[Saturnome]

Ha! Just noticed the relation between the spine and Sternberg's coat.

[swo17]

I might have preferred a mustache motif, but the coat will do.

[Matt]

Criterion's first upskirt video confirms digipaks for the Sternberg set.

[colinr0380]

I had a horrible feeling for a moment there that the video was going to continue in the style of that Playstation 3 smashing stunt, as in front of sobbing Sternberg fans across the internet lighter fluid and a hammer gets produced and the lovingly assembled boxset gets methodically taken apart.

[MyNameCriterionForum]

[img]http://criterion_production.s3.amazonaws.com/release_images/2767/526_box_348x490.jpg[/img]

[Napier]

But I can't go for that. No can do

[carax09]

Oates=grain?

[godardslave]

blatant ripoff, Clearly. [-X
Hall and Oates should sue.

[jbeall]

I went from really liking the SotG cover to not liking it in about .5 second.

[Cinephrenic]

Could be and could not be.

[Napier]

blatant ripoff, Clearly. [-X
Hall and Oates should sue.

Who knows? Are you familiar with the Seinfeld episode where Elaine, inadvertently steals a "Ziggy"? Maybe it went down like that? Intriguing, none the less.

[Jeff]

Are you familiar with the Seinfeld episode where Elaine, inadvertently steals a "Ziggy"? Maybe it went down like that?

Maybe Skillman has Hall & Oates bed sheets.