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As you may have seen, the cover art for Criterion’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou DVDs hit the internet this week, and I found myself terribly disappointed with it. And that got me thinking about just how good Criterion’s covers always are.
The Criterion Collection covers are consistently hands down the best in the industry. There’s no other studio who so willingly eschews commerciality (read: star headshots, standard poster art–usually with star headshots superimposed, taglines and the like) in the interest of compelling design. This might be related to how low the commercial value of some of Criterion’s product is, but it usually follows through to their more widely known titles as well. Here, let me do a little comparison for you of Criterion cover designs and their corresponding Hollywood studio designs (and I’ll just use bigger, more commercial titles to better illustrate my point). The major studio’s art is on the left, Criterion’s on the right:
Okay, here’s a quick rundown of what’s happened since my last update: 1. I started school full-time at Paier College of Art in Hamden, 2. I quit my job (sort of), 3. my dad’s been in and out of the hospital (he’s out right now), 4. I got married (twice) and 5. I had my honeymoon (sort of). Not too shabby, right? And tomorrow I start my new (sort of) job.
Uhh, there’re pictures of the wedding for your perusal. It was basically perfect. Which I didn’t think was possible. I mean, we did cut the wrong cake, but I don’t think that really matters.