http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s209/kevinbartzak/SPBOXBLOG2.jpg
http://frankolinsky.blogspot.com/2008/03/aerplane-flies-high.html

pretty neat.



from a thread on blamo
http://www.blamonet.com/vb/showthread.php?t=133309
does someone have an account & can you snatch the other pics being shared in the thread??

i didn't know you had to have an account in order to see the attachments.

i uploaded all images here (http://users.telenet.be/crush/images/tafh/).

http://users.telenet.be/crush/images/tafh/73_3.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/crush/images/tafh/e8_3.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/crush/images/tafh/02_3.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/crush/images/tafh/ae_3.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/crush/images/tafh/9c_3.jpg
http://users.telenet.be/crush/images/tafh/8e_3.jpg

anyway, these are old. the picture on the frank olinsky blog is new.

neato.

thanks, i hadn't seen those...

the SP logo box is pretty nice.
they should have made multiple versions
a rainbow of variety! :P

they should have made multiple versions
a rainbow of variety! :P

oh yeah that sounds like a good idea! and then they could get one of the versions distributed exclusively by best buy, et cetera. FUN TIMES! SHINY HAPPY SP FANS!

time to take a trip on the sarcasm train. WOOO WOOO! ALL ABOARD!

chuga chuga chuga chuga

If you read Billy's notes, it says that he preferred the hypno-swirl design that eventually made the box to have rings that get "fatter" as they expand out... and that's what we got. Good call. It looks a lot better that way.

It's cool to see the other designs, but Billy chose the right one.

What does it say in the first image just above the concentric circle box?

"Zero --> Jame's #####"




Also it's interesting to see a typed letter. I keep forgetting we didn't always have the internet. :blush:

and he moved the center of the circles down and off center...

If you read Billy's notes

you think those are billy's notes?

looks like his handwriting in red there.

you think those are billy's notes?



The red writing is. Look at the word "Calgary" or whatever it says. It's definitely his hand writing.

i think it says "calgary monday", which would refer to this show, i believe: http://www.splra.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tsp1996-09-30

the release date of the tafh box is 1996/11/26, so that fits.

edit: i found a review of the "secret" show: http://ascendo.peterland.net.nz/Tour/CR96sep30.html

i think it says "calgary monday", which would refer to this show, i believe: http://www.splra.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tsp1996-09-30

the release date of the tafh box is 1996/11/26, so that fits.

edit: i found a review of the "secret" show: http://ascendo.peterland.net.nz/Tour/CR96sep30.html

9/30/96 was in fact a Monday, so yup.

That is fun.

the bottom left one looks nice too.

for some reason i think its pretty cool that bill basically designed the box, rather than some random person making the decisions (ie corporate level). maybe the cool part is that he made some good design choices. or maybe its just cool that he would take the time to sit down and think about something like that and not just blow it off.

for some reason i think its pretty cool that bill basically designed the box, rather than some random person making the decisions (ie corporate level). maybe the cool part is that he made some good design choices. or maybe its just cool that he would take the time to sit down and think about something like that and not just blow it off.


You either care or you don't care - Stanley Kubrick

its definitely one or the other. thanks for pointing that out stan.

you think those are billy's notes?

"getting fatter"

these are awesome! im glad they stuck with the target, the sp pattern reminds me of a louis vuitton purse or something.

Logo a bit smaller?

The only one I really like on paper is the one they ended up going with but it would have been interesting to see what the other ones would have looked like if they had been made.

now i'm curious about alt art for the other albums. surely when making the album art for the pumpkins, the artists had several versions down in case billy rejected one of them.

for some reason i think its pretty cool that bill basically designed the box, rather than some random person making the decisions (ie corporate level). maybe the cool part is that he made some good design choices. or maybe its just cool that he would take the time to sit down and think about something like that and not just blow it off.

Well, Billy's a bit of a control freak...and back when they were on top of the world the label didn't mind giving him nearly all the creative control!
I do find it amusing they're asking him about the hinges though. I mean, hinges, FFS!

kool

now i'm curious about alt art for the other albums. surely when making the album art for the pumpkins, the artists had several versions down in case billy rejected one of them.

rotten apples did have alt pictures for SD

never seen those TAFH alternate designs before; that's really cool

rotten apples did have alt pictures for SD

But the art for SD wasnt done by an outside source, it was thrown together by Billy and has wife at the last second.

I think he means alternate photo shoot pictures of the band members themselves (and NOT the "old" ones) inside the booklet?

I think he means alternate photo shoot pictures of the band members themselves (and NOT the "old" ones) inside the booklet?

no, he means alternate photo shoot pictures of the girls on the front. it's on the back of the booklet.