Puckman Conquers the World

Been fooling around with acid etched copper as of late. Below are the designs and the etched plate. I did about 80 designs but the packman design was the killer image of the batch. Not kidding about the 80 designs. Just got started and couldn’t stop. Not sure how this applies to animation. It does kind of apply to gaming.





Packman, named Puckman in Japan but changed for U.S. markets because of the danger of vandalism (scrape the end of the "P" off to make it an "F"). Packman took over the world and popularized videogame like nothing before it.

There is something about the simple design esoteric of the missing pizza slice circle that puts the Packman image up there with the Smiley Face and the Playboy Bunny as an iconic archetype design.

There was a whole lot of videogame history before Packman but I put all that into the category of videogame pre-history. The modern era starts with the round yellow one.

Thinking a lot about videogames as of late. Been doing early volunteer organization work for the IndieCade display at this year's E3. So maybe it is only natural that Packman would find his way into my jewelry designs?

Speaking of designs I have thrown in a couple three pages of designs from this project.