Publisher's Synopsis
The Art Of The Box features 26 biographies of those artists who, at some point in their careers, found themselves illustrating video game packaging, including Bob Wakelin, Steve Hendricks, Ken Macklin, Tom DuBois, Steinar Lund, Marc Ericksen, Julie Bell and Susumu Matsushita among many others. With information drawn from live interviews wherever possible, we discuss their beginnings as an artist, their inspirations and influences, the games they illustrated, and where their artistic careers have taken them.
The Art Of The Box includes game packaging illustration, from the early days of Atari's iconic VCS box art, to modern-day collaborations the latest AAA games. Each biography is accompanied by lavish, full-colour box artwork, supplied by the artists themselves.
This substantial and exhaustively researched book is 564 pages in length, with over 100,000 words and more than 350 full colour images. The Art Of The Box is available in hardback format with heavy, gloss paper, incredible print quality and including a ribbon bookmark.
