Futurama

Going along with the TV show seasons theme of last week, this is the case for Futurama. It comes in a main characters, a robot, head and contains 12 discs and a little antenna for the top of his head. I asked for this at Christmas and as I suspected, haven't actually watched it once. But it makes my entertainment center look extremely cool. Bravo Futurama package designers.

I'd pay 60 bucks for a pretty box.

I can't even imagine paying 20 bucks for a movie at this point, but the packaging for seasons of TV shows gets me every time. I don't even like Six Feet Under but I would if it got me a sweet box like this. This case is awesome because of it's design, the cool tombstone on the top, the roots going down to the bottom and finally the black abyss that surrounds you 6 feet under the earth.

Helvetica

This is an example of a very very bad Helvetica logo. Gap attempted to redesign their logo to this. Gap spelled in Helvetica with a blue gradient box behind it, because Helvetica is so widely used that simply saying "Gap" wouldn't have been that effective or memorable. I feel it's a bad design because it does the opposite of what you want a clothing store to do, blend in with everything else. Also, it makes it look like a bank or a credit card company now.

I find this use of Helvetica to be really well done. There's just enough information to make Helvetica really work. It's not a giant sign that catches your attention, it's the simplicity of the font and to-the-pointness of it. 

Crate&Barrel doesn't look as nifty in whatever font this is being typed in.

I want to buy a ton of things from this store simply so I can have a box or a bag with their logo on it. It's just a simple name in Helvetica yet it's placement and boldness work great. It creates a sense of elegance and trendiness which is great for a store that, from what I can tell, sells decorative things.

When you lose a leg...

I found this on a design blog when searching for some more inspiration and thought it was great for this class. I love the design style and how they have structured the sentence to match the shape of the missing leg. This is a PSA for the banning and removal of landmines. Using a child and showing how acts of war affect the innocent and not just the people we're fighting tugs at everyone's heart. The typography they used looks like handwriting (not comic sans thankfully!), perhaps that of a child's.