20/03/07

"POWER IN YOU" Billboards

Can be seen at http://struckcreative.com/work/p-i-y-billboards

Extremely simple idea that gets the point across.

14/03/07

ANIMATED TYPE VIDEO

From Youtube



The song is by Jimmy Buffet

Hope to be able to do stuff like this myself. Syncronized well with the music. Good mixture of text and image- could use the same technique for printed work. The colour and layout of the text puts across the tone of the song i.e it puts across a message without saying anything.

14/03/07

MORE PONG PACKAGING

From http://www.pong-story.com/atpong2.htm

Still no luck finding out who it's by.

11/03/07

SUPER PONG PACKAGING

Found this whilst I was bored and on the internet. I think the design on the box is very clean and simple, and although it's from the 70's it wouldn't look out of place today. Makes good use of the 3D shape of the box.

Found it on thegameconsole.com

ABOUT PONG "In 1973, after the success of the original PONG coin-op, an Atari engineer by the name of Harold Lee came up with the idea of a home PONG unit. Since the PONG coin-op that Alan Alcorn designed was nothing more than the game board connected to an actual television set, he thought it would be possible to scale it down a bit and modify it for use at home. This would be a new direction for the fledgling Atari consumer electronics. If they could pull it off, they would be one of the pioneers of using high tech custom integrated circuits in the consumer industry.In 1975 it was decided Sears would sell PONG under it's own specially created Tele-Games label, and production was initially projected at 50,000 units. This was soon raised to 150,000 for the 1975 Christmass season. Atari agreed to give Sears exclusive rights for the following year, and would continue to make custom Tele-Games versions for any future consoles. This was the beginning of a long relationship between Atari and Sears, which would continue even after Nolan Bushnell sold Atari to Warner."

ABOUT SUPER PONG "Atari's sales of the Home PONG console were phenomenal to put it mildly. Atari would continue to cash in of the PONG franchise by releasing yet another home version of one of its arcade game assets. This time it would be Super PONG. Now home players could select for 4 different variations of PONG games to delight and entertain them for countless hours.Meanwhile numerous knock-off PONG-type consoles were hitting the market. However, because of Atari's now well known presence in the coin-op market, its name recognition helped it stand out. Also Atari's unusual Pedestal design helped Atari stand out in the Sears Retail Stores as well as other stores who were now carrying Atari products.When compared to the plethora of bland and boxy "Me-Too" consoles by so many other companies, the Atari PONG line of consoles simply stood out. Atari's consoles had eye catching rainbow colors and a deep and ear catching PONG sound from their built in speaker. Most other consoles were still far behind playing catch up with Black & White displays, flimsy controllers and some even without sound."

WHAT NEXT?

Find out who did the design