In working on the devEdge website, which will be up as soon as their owner returns from a trip to Africa, I figured I should make some boxes for their software. The thing is that distributed online software doesn't exactly have its own visual representation. It used to be that software came in shrink wrapped, pretty little boxes.

 

Now thanks to online distribution services like Steam your video games and development tools and word processors all come in streams of data that you can't and will never see. People don't like that when they're buying something, they want to know that what they're spending their money on is substantive. At least that's what I'm told... or what I figure. I can't tell or figure where I came up with this, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.

 

Either way you can't argue with results, and after playing around with some ideas this was a base design I came up with for their Blackberry software. It'll probably undergo some revisions, and I may make a more real-to-life Blackberry for the cover, but until then I'm pretty happy with my little box.

 

 

 

 

The Java development tools box looks pretty sweet too... I guess I'll show you that as well since we're on the subject.

 

 

There's a lot more you can do with this, I'm looking forward to playing with some ideas.