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For our Print Design class, we were supposed to do research into DVD packagings in preparation for doing our own design work. I spent around an hour in an HMV looking at special edition and regular DVDs but didn’t really find anything that really captured my attention. One item, the Scarface Limited Edition, had some interesting elements. So, I decided to see if there were any more photos of it online. With my searches, I stumbled upon Feed My Brain, a website documenting someone’s (I couldn’t find a name!) personal DVD collection including Film and TV special edition box sets. There are tons of images of all sorts of collections. I highly recommend looking at the site if you are looking for inspiration or simply to marvel at the collected works from around the world. From that site, I came across Skull Face, a site that also documents DVD collections as well as reviews them. See one of the most amazing ones, the Band of Brothers LE, after the cut.

Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television miniseries set during World War II, co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. The miniseries first aired in 2001 on HBO and still runs frequently on different TV channels around the world.

The miniseries centers on the experiences of Company E (”Easy Company”) of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division and one of its lieutenants, Richard Winters, from Easy’s initial training, through the American airborne landings in Normandy, Operation Market Garden, the Battle of Bastogne and on to the end of the war. It is based on the book of the same name written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. (From Wikipedia)

The packaging here does an amazing job reflecting the mood and world of World War II and the lives of the people involved. I am amazed at the amount of work that must have gone into this project.

Images from Skullface. (a review is there too).

Outer Box

Opening the case

Dog tags on the right side

Open the middle area

The Main content box

Partially Opened Content Box

Fully Opened Content Box

Displaying the DVD case

Displaying the back of the DVD case

DVD Booklet

Inside 1

Inside 2

Inside 3

“Top Secret” book

Contents off the Top Secret Folder

Mission Map

Tide / Beach information

Images from Skullface.

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