The above is another poster in the series I’ve done for Blue Flavor, advertising some of their software and projects. I’ve got a huge response from these posters, which brings up a rather interesting idea that we’re dabbling with here: album art for programs. I considered this at first just advertisement, but the BF guys have been great, as usual, and given me complete creative freedom. I’m basically allowed to do whatever the word makes me think of. Which brings up an interesting new venue for illustrators. In a world in which albums are released digitally, and software and video games sometimes have a big and feverent a following as music ( see Firefox!) who’s to say that software packaging needs to be all boring swooping blue lines and staid san serif fonts? I hope this is the beginning of a big trend... in any event, thanks again to the BF guys for being on the side of the good guys...Joe Alterio’s blog on illustration, comics, and other ...
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