graphic design tag

 

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30% of your grade is a result of the following:

  • My opinion of your overall design
  • My observation of your work ethic
  • My opinion of your use of time
  • My opinion of your approach to professionalism
  • My observation of how well you take criticism, advice, instruction and incorporate it into your design work

70% is a rsult of meeting the basic assignment criteria.

Retro Game Box Art Redux

Due Date: March 27




















  1. Rationale
  2. Examples
  3. Scenario / Instructions
  4. Rubric

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Back in the day, Video Games were extremely limited in their ability to properly convey a magical world of dungeons, dragons, wizards, jet planes, baseball players, boxing contendors, or anything else. Often times, characters on the screen were nothing more than a collection of pixels that loosely represented a person or a thing. Because of this, the designers of these games had to rely on stirring gamer's imaginations through the colorful, detailed artwork on the box. Nowadays, box somewhat a thing of the past (thank you, streaming/download of games directly to the platform!). But, the artwork is still relevant as it acts as a represenation of games from yesterday to today. 

Your job is to take a retro game box-art design and reimagine it in a more modern way. However, your design must try to capture the retro feel of the original while modernizing it for a new audience.

 ORIGINAL (1982) REDUX (2024)
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The epic game design, Intellivision, is relaunching their original game line-up from the 1980s. However, their original box art design is outdated and they are looking for a grand update to their games. It is up to you to redesign their work in a new, fresh (sort of) manner that still touches on the nostalgia factor of the original design. 

You will select two (2) of the available box-art designs from the image carousel (above) and recreate/redesign them, moderninzing the overall look while adhereing to the spirit of the original design. Please note the required elements (in red) on the Game Box layout below.

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What is considered "the spirit" of the original design?

  • Stratified coloring of action (the rainbow effect)
  • The colorization of the original box
  • The use of the Intellivision logo
  • Does the box art reflect the nature of the game?
    • example 1: Hockey - does it represent what the sport of hockey looks like?
    • example 2: Chopper command? Helicopters? A convoy of trucks? Explosions!?

 

 

 

Criteria No Yes
Work Ethic 0 10
Design/Aesthetics/Subjective Grading 0 30
Were the design criteria met? Stratifaction? Overall game theme? Color observance? 0 30
Was the Intellivsion logo incorporated into both box art designs 0 10
Box Cover Art Designs (x 2) 0 160

 

Mr. Christopher Garner (AS, BS, MS)
STEM Education and Leadership
Technology Education
Graphic Communications & Design
Email: christopher.garner@mcusd709.org

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