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Bioshock box art cover
By avatar Rashaan Griffith 2 on September 10th, 2013
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Rashaan Griffith 2 [ 1 decade ago ]

This is my first cover and I wanted to display the game's main themes. On the front is the real star of the game, the city of Rapture. On the back is the Big Daddy/Little Sister relationship. Also, I love clean simple design, thus the minimalist logos and placement.

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benyaminj 43 [ 1 decade ago ]

good idea for back
but is very empty

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aldimon 22 [ 1 decade ago ]

Good idea, but there is just so much missing here that this box can hardly have any impact. The front as well as the back are based on a great idea, it's just the execution that lacks a lot of finesse.

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Rashaan Griffith 2 [ 1 decade ago ]

Thanks for the critiques! This, like my other covers I will be posting are very clean and simple because that is the type of design I resonate with. I think there are plenty of full and busy covers out there with lots of words and logos, especially the official ones. But I think a custom cover is an opportunity to do something more interesting and abstract that makes you think a little more about what's inside. Thanks again for the feedback!

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Rarity 38 [ 1 decade ago ]

The point aldimon was trying to make is there can still be minimalistic and clean, whilst not being this empty. If you had a slight gradient on the back between to really light shades of grey with a really low opacity texture to it, it would have added more on the execution part.

On your point of taking the opportunity to do something different - custom covers remove the boundaries of is able to be set on a box and thus let more creativity come from this. Thus it makes no sense setting boundaries like this on your first box.

Put more time / effort in your boxes I'd say, as both the back and from come from a good idea. But just pasting half a wallpaper for the front and some brushes / partial renders on the back won't cut it.

Just to make sure: this is NOT to burn your box nor you totally down; again the elements of this box come from really good ideas but just lack the execution of the idea and I hope you'll stick around to learn that part

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