With the global business launch of Microsoft’s elusively-impressive Office 2010 productivity suite today, Amazon.com has unleashed the box arts for each of the individual (fourteen) Office standalone applications (Word, Excel, etc.) to satisfy your product packaging-fetishes.

In stark contrast to the previous box art, the new packaging takes on the recent trend of simplification in Microsoft box arts to a whole new level with a design that boils down to just a gradient, the name of the product and the icon. In fact the only functionally-unnecessary element in the whole design is the reflection of the icon.

More: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20100514/box-art-for-office-2010-standalone-applications/

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