I'm currently working on a project with a friend/work colleague who runs megadrive.me - We've always said it'd be nice to do some Japanese gaming posters and we've finally gotten around to it.
I've produced a design based on a blueprint of an NTSC Megadrive and the iconic MD logo overlaid on top of it - And we're having them silk screen printed at A1 size on the new GF Smith 230Gsm Takeo paper (which fittingly, is Japanese.) at this very moment. The run will be limited to 100 - And already got quite a lot of interest from some of the retro gaming guys on twitter - I will keep you posted on when they'll be available but in the meantime here's a few pics of work in progressÂ
(apologies for the terrible quality - they were taken on an iPhone - we had a photographer with us who'll be prepping some good shots over the weekend - and the glossy-ness is because the test has been printed on acetate.) (I'll shut up now.):
Isn't it weird how Sega made the Master System look like a cassette player, the Megadrive like a turntable, and the Saturn and Dreamcast like CD players (admittedly less weird with those two since that's what they basically were)? If they made a console now it would need to look like an MP3 player to keep the theme going but everything plays MP3s so it would look a bit like everything. But nothing can look like everything.
When the alchemists of old searched for the Philosopher's Stone they were looking for something they defined as existing in everything and therefore so everyday and commonplace you wouldn't notice it, but at the same time so impossibly rare that no one would ever find it and that's why they looked for it. Idiots.
He could've just said they came from another planet but seems keen to convince people with his bullshit pseudoscience that he knows stuff. I wouldn't trust him with my lunch. - SG
Cheers for the feedback - because it's a collab with megadrive.me all future projects will be Sega related (unless I look at some alternatives by myself) - Will definitely consider tshirts for 002 - got a few ideas in the pipeline...