Criterion Cover Art & Packaging Babble-on Vol.2

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criterionsnob · #1451 Post by **criterionsnob** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:55 pm

My Rohmer slipcover just arrived. I'm in Canada and emailed them the day of the announcement.

hammock · #1452 Post by **hammock** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:30 am

I really find it annoying that they now print the huge transparent C on every single disc (the label on the dvd) they release. It does not work well with the design and the logo is well represented everywhere else. Hopefully they will stop this very soon! Try and count the number of C logos on the new Amacord release - I think we got the picture guys!

bunuelian · #1453 Post by **bunuelian** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 8:21 pm

Le Samouraï wrote:I don't think so. The regional restriction of rights are surely bound to the films only and not the covers, essays etc.

My comment was based on a review I had to do this summer of a bunch of contracts for a film distribution company. Each contract had different geographical limitations, and some, for whatever reason, treated promotional/graphical stuff separately from the film itself. It's why I said it was "possible." Artwork is a separate property from the film, and might have separate contractual rights attached to it. Obviously, it would be somewhat unusual, but lawyers get pesky.

Glad to see people are getting their replacement covers, though, and that my point was moot.

Le Samouraï · #1454 Post by **Le Samouraï** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:04 am

bunuelian wrote: My comment was based on a review I had to do this summer of a bunch of contracts for a film distribution company. Each contract had different geographical limitations, and some, for whatever reason, treated promotional/graphical stuff separately from the film itself.

Very interesting! I stand corrected then.

Buttery Jeb · #1455 Post by **Buttery Jeb** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 2:25 am

It's all tiny-like, but here's an image of the cover for "The Beales of Grey Gardens."

-BJ

#1456 Post by **Matt** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:00 am

Buttery Jeb wrote:It's all tiny-like, but here's an image of the cover for "The Beales of Grey Gardens."

Unacceptable. Should have been a nice, posed portrait of Big Edie to mirror the iconic image of Little Edie on the cover of Grey Gardens. If that was unavailable, they could have at least done away with those--what are they, contact sheets?--at the top and bottom.

Jem · #1457 Post by **Jem** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:19 am

hammock wrote:I really find it annoying that they now print the huge transparent C on every single disc (the label on the dvd) they release. It does not work well with the design and the logo is well represented everywhere else. Hopefully they will stop this very soon! Try and count the number of C logos on the new Amacord release - I think we got the picture guys!

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fdm · #1458 Post by **fdm** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:07 am

Jem wrote:
hammock wrote:I really find it annoying that they now print the huge transparent C on every single disc (the label on the dvd) they release. It does not work well with the design and the logo is well represented everywhere else. Hopefully they will stop this very soon! Try and count the number of C logos on the new Amacord release - I think we got the picture guys!
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godardslave · #1459 Post by **godardslave** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:10 am

hammock wrote:I really find it annoying that they now print the huge transparent C on every single disc (the label on the dvd) they release. It does not work well with the design and the logo is well represented everywhere else. Hopefully they will stop this very soon! Try and count the number of C logos on the new Amacord release - I think we got the picture guys!

7 ?

redbill · #1460 Post by **redbill** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:31 pm

Matt wrote:
Buttery Jeb wrote:It's all tiny-like, but here's an image of the cover for "The Beales of Grey Gardens."
Unacceptable. Should have been a nice, posed portrait of Big Edie to mirror the iconic image of Little Edie on the cover of Grey Gardens. If that was unavailable, they could have at least done away with those--what are they, contact sheets?--at the top and bottom.

Big Edie is hardly in The Beales at all, its almost all Little Edie...

hammock · #1461 Post by **hammock** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 1:22 pm

This might be boring to some, admitted, but if this is what future disc designs from CC is gonna look like, they took a huge dive on my sexiness-scale...

That C is not needed with logos all over the cover.

I feel old and grumpy now that I'm the only one that have a problem with it, but so be it!

And the C logo is represented 9 times on the Amacord packing, including the ones on the discs and the one on the sticker - just for the record!

Galen Young · #1462 Post by **Galen Young** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:52 pm

hammock wrote:And the C logo is represented 9 times on the Amacord packing, including the ones on the discs and the one on the sticker - just for the record!

I'll bet they paid at least 50-100 grand+ for the logo from some "brand identity" superstar like Landor or Girvin or some such, so of course they have to get their money's worth by slapping it on anything and everything without rhyme or reason. I still love their cover designs, will take digipaks over an Amaray in a heartbeat, but it really is too bad the new logo is so embarrassing. C'est la vie...

#1463 Post by **Matt** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:55 pm

hammock wrote:This might be boring to some, admitted, but if this is what future disc designs from CC is gonna look like, they took a huge dive on my sexiness-scale...

You're right. I have absolutely no desire to fuck that disc.

arsonfilms · #1464 Post by **arsonfilms** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:05 pm

I once worked for a company that insisted on plastering their new logo on everything, even when it didn't make sense, and even a year or so after the change took effect. On movie posters, we'd have all the other logos - production companies, technical companies, etc. - in monochrome to match the credit block (which looks pretty slick), and then we'd stick ours on there in full color for the sake of brand awareness even though it looked stupid and came off as trying too hard.

I like the new criterion logo in theory, but some of these first releases seem to have been put together with the first logo in mind and then modified. The Kicking and Screaming disc looks agonizingly bad, but I like the effect on Amarcord. The C cuts into a photo on the Rohmer box, but looks great everywhere else. I'm hoping as time goes on they begin to design around the C (rather than the initially necessary vice versa), and that they begin to relax their disc-art imprint standards. If the disc C's were just fainter, it'd be a lot more appealing.

Le Samouraï · #1465 Post by **Le Samouraï** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:20 pm

Matt wrote:
hammock wrote:This might be boring to some, admitted, but if this is what future disc designs from CC is gonna look like, they took a huge dive on my sexiness-scale...
You're right. I have absolutely no desire to fuck that disc.

I have. And it's my size too.

toiletduck! · #1466 Post by **toiletduck!** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 4:26 pm

Le Samouraï wrote:I have. And it's my size too.

Ah, self-deprecating penii jokes. Nothing beats the ol' standby.

-Toilet Dcuk

Anthony · #1467 Post by **Anthony** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:35 pm

I don't know about Criterion's new logo. Whenever I see it I'm reminded of this.

hammock · #1468 Post by **hammock** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:50 pm

Anthony wrote:I don't know about Criterion's new logo. Whenever I see it I'm reminded of this.

And the Nectar bar reminded me of "Taste Of Cherry"...

miless · #1469 Post by **miless** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 6:04 pm

it reminds me of this

thebedbreakinkid · Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:33 pm

they should have criterion cliff bars. that'd make some money.

mikeohhh · #1471 Post by **mikeohhh** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:55 pm

miless wrote:it reminds me of this

I just pulled that album out recently and was thinking the exact same thing.

Jem · #1472 Post by **Jem** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:44 am

Galen Young wrote:I'll bet they paid at least 50-100 grand+ for the logo from some "brand identity" superstar like Landor or Girvin or some such, so of course they have to get their money's worth by slapping it on anything and everything without rhyme or reason. I still love their cover designs, will take digipaks over an Amaray in a heartbeat, but it really is too bad the new logo is so embarrassing. C'est la vie...

Embarrassing for who?

I like many others like the new identity, and for the record it was designed by Paula Scher.

fdm · #1473 Post by **fdm** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:38 am

Lino wrote:fdm, you should have realized by now that you are exceptionally jinxed. My best advice is to go to you local shaman or witch and get that digipack devil off your back, ASAP!

Seeking more details on how to do so... are they in the phone book?

Up to copy #5 now of Moral Tales, with no undamaged copy in sight (don't care about the box itself any more, but...). [Now they're apparently sending other peoples' damaged returns out...]

Feel like fdm held hostage... day 90 since placed first order...

Galen Young · #1474 Post by **Galen Young** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:45 am

Jem wrote:Embarrassing? for who?

Criterion.

Jem wrote:...and for the record it was designed by Paula Scher.

That's hilarious! She must be styling herself these days to become the Paul Rand of her, uh, generation.

Jem · #1475 Post by **Jem** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:47 am

Galen Young wrote:
Jem wrote:Embarrassing? for who?
Criterion.

Who says Criterion are embarrassed? Just because you thunk it, doesn't make it so.

Jem wrote:...and for the record it was designed by Paula Scher.

That's hilarious! She must be styling herself these days to become the Paul Rand of her, uh, generation.

What do you mean? oh... I get it Paula, Paul...yeah, hilarious?

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