Box Art
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Zarneth
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"pandara"?
Honestly a bit on the overly simple side in my opinion. Plus A photo of something black on a black background doesn't work too well.
Honestly a bit on the overly simple side in my opinion. Plus A photo of something black on a black background doesn't work too well.
Prophet
God I'm old.
Personally, I think a plain white box with "NOT PORN" stamped in bold black letters on the top would be good.
atomicthumbs
I am the king of the collectors, with hospital bed
I shall give this a shot as if from a howitzer, as my photoshop skills have improved greatly.
Snu
Member
taking an idea from this thread, http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=41691
i like just having a white box that says 'Open the box...' in simple black font on it
maybe the pandora logo next to it...
its not like this will be on store shelves or anything, so we dont need anything on the box, people already know what they are getting.
i like just having a white box that says 'Open the box...' in simple black font on it
maybe the pandora logo next to it...
its not like this will be on store shelves or anything, so we dont need anything on the box, people already know what they are getting.
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Squidge
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coarse: of ordinary or inferior quality or value; crude or unrefined in taste, manners, or language. Definitely NOT what we want the Pandora described as.
Not a bad attempt, but a bit plain, and definitely needed proofing.
Then again, considering how likely this is to be sitting on a shop shelf, do we care what the box looks like? It could be plain for us, and then if it does start appearing in shops, a simple sleave could be made for it.
Not a bad attempt, but a bit plain, and definitely needed proofing.
Then again, considering how likely this is to be sitting on a shop shelf, do we care what the box looks like? It could be plain for us, and then if it does start appearing in shops, a simple sleave could be made for it.
astro
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From what Craigix said its going to be no frills packaging.
Prometheus
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Aren't some of the back-of-box claims a little off...? (Weren't there two other handhelds I heard about that offered similar capabilities...? )
I have a couple of suggestions;
Firstly, I would suggest not using JPEG images, or, if you can't avoid that, placing ones that aren't easy to clean white borders from on a white background, not a black one - the Pandora render on the back suffers from this, as does an area a little way away from it, where a white line is wandering around.
Secondly, I would suggest running the text through a spellchecker, and double-checking the placement of punctuation-marks. Pandora is written as "pandara" (lacking both the correct spelling, and the correct capitalisation), and MHz, CPU, and LCD are all in lowercase when they shouldn't be (they're all abbreviations - Mega Hertz, Central Processing Unit, and Liquid Crystal Display), for example, not to mention a few random errors ("coarse" where it should be "course"; "definatly" where it should be "definitely", for example, as well as a lack of capitalisation after full stops).
All of that said, I absolutely adore that pun about opening the packaging - that's brilliant (I'd love to see the team use that one). (It also sort of sticks out as it has no errors... )
)I have a couple of suggestions;
Firstly, I would suggest not using JPEG images, or, if you can't avoid that, placing ones that aren't easy to clean white borders from on a white background, not a black one - the Pandora render on the back suffers from this, as does an area a little way away from it, where a white line is wandering around.
Secondly, I would suggest running the text through a spellchecker, and double-checking the placement of punctuation-marks. Pandora is written as "pandara" (lacking both the correct spelling, and the correct capitalisation), and MHz, CPU, and LCD are all in lowercase when they shouldn't be (they're all abbreviations - Mega Hertz, Central Processing Unit, and Liquid Crystal Display), for example, not to mention a few random errors ("coarse" where it should be "course"; "definatly" where it should be "definitely", for example, as well as a lack of capitalisation after full stops).
All of that said, I absolutely adore that pun about opening the packaging - that's brilliant (I'd love to see the team use that one).
(It also sort of sticks out as it has no errors... )Blah
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Snu said:taking an idea from this thread, http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=41691
i like just having a white box that says 'Open the box...' in simple black font on it
maybe the pandora logo next to it...
its not like this will be on store shelves or anything, so we dont need anything on the box, people already know what they are getting.
But if it did end up on store shelves, such a box would be bad. Remember "Steal This Book"?
And mail carriers are bad enough when not provoked.
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imec
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Ummm.. To clean up the render, alpha to select, shrink by 1-2 pixels and then either feather or gaussian blur. It helps, cerealsy.
imec
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Hiroe said:
I know, I'm just sayin.
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Shirohagen
Brutal Deluxe
Required viewing on this subject:
:::: YouTube Clip ::::
From here: The Microsoft iPod
(Apologies for posting my own link!)
Seriously though, the box art would ideally be part of the brand or identity of the Pandora. This means it will ideally come from the colours, type and treatment of the logo and the ads. At the moment I'm guessing the most likely overall identity is to follow the precendents we've seen on the website or Eolair's logo which was voted most popular in the logo thread.
Less is more. Resist shadows, reflections, shine, lens-flare, hundreds and thousands, moons on sticks.
Keep it simple, use the brand, confine technical info to one side panel as far as possible, don't SHOUT, use the main representational colour as much as possible to build recognition and make sure it looks professional. No clipart, no '3D', no geek in-jokes. It can't look homespun or like a Chinese iPhone, it has to look powerful and make you want to buy it. Some high-grade professional photography of the unit would be a must. Tone of voice for the text will be crucial too, summing up the machine in a sentence would help.
Just my thoughts...
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:::: YouTube Clip ::::
From here: The Microsoft iPod
(Apologies for posting my own link!)
Seriously though, the box art would ideally be part of the brand or identity of the Pandora. This means it will ideally come from the colours, type and treatment of the logo and the ads. At the moment I'm guessing the most likely overall identity is to follow the precendents we've seen on the website or Eolair's logo which was voted most popular in the logo thread.
Less is more. Resist shadows, reflections, shine, lens-flare, hundreds and thousands, moons on sticks.
Keep it simple, use the brand, confine technical info to one side panel as far as possible, don't SHOUT, use the main representational colour as much as possible to build recognition and make sure it looks professional. No clipart, no '3D', no geek in-jokes. It can't look homespun or like a Chinese iPhone, it has to look powerful and make you want to buy it. Some high-grade professional photography of the unit would be a must. Tone of voice for the text will be crucial too, summing up the machine in a sentence would help.
Just my thoughts...
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fusion_power
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I like the GP2X F100 Box. Small, plain, black, simple, just great.
Pandora should have something equal but the Box should be opened like a real BOX and not sideways. The Box for the Pandora should have A Lid and when you open it like a Chest, you see straight onto the Product.
Pandora should have something equal but the Box should be opened like a real BOX and not sideways. The Box for the Pandora should have A Lid and when you open it like a Chest, you see straight onto the Product.
Shirohagen
Brutal Deluxe
That's a good point, the Pandora's box should be opened. The word open is important here in lots of ways and there's talk of a slogan like 'open the box' which would mean the all important act of opening the box could be made a nice feature.
Think of all the Apple fanboys who photograph the unboxing of their new MacBooks on Flickr...
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Think of all the Apple fanboys who photograph the unboxing of their new MacBooks on Flickr...
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atomicthumbs
I am the king of the collectors, with hospital bed
Still working on mine.
Do we have a /b/tard on our hands here?
Encyclopedia Dramatica?imec said:
I know, I'm just sayin.
Do we have a /b/tard on our hands here?
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Sphinxter
Says What?
Word, that would more likely be, 'bag', art.astro said:
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whiskthecat
whiskthecat
I still have my GP2X box on display inside my room, I think it looks pretty good.
gruso
thunderbox
What I'd really like to see (this is my serious face) is a plain brown eco-friendly cardboard box. No bleaching or glossing or superfluous crap. As Squidge said, if it goes to retail shelves a sleeve could be done up.Prophet said:
Oh by the way:
sleave (noun)
1. a fine silk thread separated from a large thread
2. untwisted silk that tends to mat or tangle; floss
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