Hungarian Rhapsody - Graphic Design

Dane wrote:

Rubbersuit wrote: So would goatse. I think we can hope for a poster that looks like it wasn't created using Photoshop 1996.

HAHAHA!! Freddie would love that Idea I'm sure!

And the original 'Live Magic' poster is by no means worse.. very 80s, but not worse.

True, but the way it was raped (read: edited) to create the original Budapest VHS cover is spine-chilling.

I couldn't resist and put something together.. Maybe GT or someone with connections can get it to the right people in time ;)

I would maybe include something from this : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_in_Budapest or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Szabads%C3%A1g_Szobor.jpg - I think this is the statue used in the DoRo documentary footage

Rubbersuit wrote:
Agreed. It looks like a first attempt at using Photoshop.
The colours aren't corrected, the logo is horrid, the layout is terrible and there are obvious photoshop artifacts.
Is it me or did they rip off the queen logo from the "Queen Complete Works" book?
http://www.amazon.ca/Queen-Complete-Works-Georg-Purvis/dp/190528733X
It looks like an asian-bootleg DVD cover.

Ahahaha, you're right.

Lostman wrote:

Rubbersuit wrote:
Agreed. It looks like a first attempt at using Photoshop.
The colours aren't corrected, the logo is horrid, the layout is terrible and there are obvious photoshop artifacts.
Is it me or did they rip off the queen logo from the "Queen Complete Works" book?
http://www.amazon.ca/Queen-Complete-Works-Georg-Purvis/dp/190528733X
It looks like an asian-bootleg DVD cover.

Ahahaha, you're right.

Yes, Queen ripped off "Queen Complete Works". Didn't now that Queen needed to rip off their own logos.
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/queen/princes_of_the_universe___a_dozen_red_roses_for_my_darling/

Yes, you guessed right, the rip off is made by "Queen Complete Works"/Georg Purvis or whatever published that book without Queen's approval.

Yeah I was wrong about the logo. It's a variation on the font Queen were using around the time of A Kind of Magic.

The book was also similar to this font.

That mockup looks great Dane! :) Certainly better than the official poster.

These alternative covers where kind of a joke years ago and now they are just as good or better than the official ones.

Years ago the official covers were decent (MIH, Another World, GHIII even Live at the Bowl) and the overall fandom didn't have access or were proficient in graphic design software.
I guess things started going south with Return of the Champions (maybe GVH2?). The first time I remember almost everybody and their mothers going "WTF?!". Then Montreal in 2007, The Cosmos Rocks, etc.
Is Richard Gray responsible for these as well?
He did some great work in the nineties for Queen.
The fan made "Hungarian Rhapsody" cover is very good. Much better than the official poster.

Sorry accidental post

Dane, where's that mock-up you did for a hypothetical Queen II Deluxe set?

That was stunning.

The vhs cover is way better!

Dane, your cover looks great! Puts the 'official' release to shame!

Dane's is indeed a lot better - does a good job of capturing the grandness and excitement of the stage show, rather than dulling it like the official one does. Hungarian Rhapsody is still a dumb name...

Wiley wrote:
I guess things started going south with Return of the Champions (maybe GVH2?).

Haha, Return of the Champions' art had the most sickening font...

There are no excuses; graphic design since ROTC has been very very poor... and there is many talented people out there (some here at QZ!!) that could do far better jobs with no that much effort. I guess we can blame it on the QPL policy of "keeping the family together no matter what". Do you think Richard Gray, knowing himself he´s been and will be their official graphic designer forever and ever, will try to make any effort, or be innovative or imaginative? nope. Wich is a pity, as it´s proved many products like these start appealling to customers by displaying qualitative artwork.
This official promotional art for Budapest is a bad and amateurish joke.
Well done Dane, your version rocks.

pittrek wrote: I would maybe include something from this : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_in_Budapest or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Szabads%C3%A1g_Szobor.jpg - I think this is the statue used in the DoRo documentary footage

I was going to do an over the top Communist propaganda poster which would work great with outlines of these kinds of monuments... 

The font used in the new trailer got me going on that one.. 

If the BluRay/DVD release has a crappy cover I will definitely start using my own covers for this and upcoming releases..