There’s nothing I like more than a nice bit of packaging design.

Okay, so that’s a complete lie. I love infinitely more things than nice packaging design; sweet n’ sour prawn balls, crispy chilli beef, prawn crackers, beer, horror movies, horror movies about killer sweet n’ sour prawns…you get the idea. But this bit of work for the totally incredible HBO series Six Feet Under really is quite stunning. Avoiding the usual cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, the designers have instead opted for…ummm, well…?..okay, so it’s a load of cardboard DVD cases inside a larger cardboard case, but that’s not the point…

It’s the idea behind it that works so well, and all the little extra touches that make it such a compelling bit of design. Yes, they’ve had to keep within a certain budget and that has necessitated the standard card & plastic DVD wallets housed inside a card slip cover, but what a card slip cover. Created to look like a chunk of earth complete with fake grass topping and its very own little tombstone, this is a pretty beautiful thing and a perfect compliment to a groundbreaking series.

Source: Becker’s Blog