4st Place: HBO's Game of Thrones: Limited Edition Steelbook Collector's Set

Seasons 1 - 4

At last, here's a project I've been working on for five months now. HBO just announced Collector's Edition Blu-Ray sets for seasons 1 - 4 of one of my favorite TV shows, Game of Thrones, in new Steelbook cases. I had a large hand in designing everything and prepping it for print, from the case artwork to the Blu-Ray disc faces to the transparent outer packaging sleeve.

Since Elastic created the title sequence for the show (and continue to update it annually with new locations), HBO decided to come to us to design the artwork for the cases as well. Each season features a different location from the show, and we got to utilize the same 3D models from the title sequence to create the covers. Also, each season comes with an inset, 3D magnet displaying the house sigil/symbology of it's location. From HBO's announcement:

Season 1 packaging features Winterfell, where fans are introduced to the Stark family in the series premiere. The magnet for Season 1 is the direwolf sigil of House Stark.

In Season 2, the Lannisters’ influence is keenly felt from the Iron Throne and their sigil is included on packaging set in King’s Landing, where the season’s pivotal Battle of the Blackwater occurs.

Season 3 features the magnet sigil of House Frey and their ancestral seat of the Twins-the location of this season’s infamous Red Wedding.

Season 4 features the icy landscape of Castle Black and the Wall, where the brothers of the Night’s Watch fend off an army of wildlings from the far north. The magnet for this season features a crow and Jon Snow’s sword, Longclaw.

My favorite addition is that when the cases are aligned on the shelf, the spines will display the glowing astrolabe from the titles that hangs high above the map and tells the history of Westeros along it's spinning bands, reason enough for most compulsive completionists like myself to pick up the whole series on Steelbook once the show is done.

Seasons 1 and 2 come out November 3, 2015, with 3 and 4 planned for release next year.

Some more closeups: