JVC: Gonks Love Headphones

Gonks Love Headphones PSD
Group Design Huddle Meeting Sprint Review Pre-Mortem - Round 17:
  • Everyone likes the yellow halo; blue halo looked like electrocution.
  • Make head even bigger. We aren't selling bodyphones!
  • The hair should be like dreads, but also spiky, and 10% more urban.
  • Hands can still be smaller. Ideally guy should resemble tyrannosaur.
  • Chin bigger! Lose the neck!
Thanks to John R!
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56 comments:

Robert Dee said...

When I was a kid, when I was a little boy, I always wanted to be a dinosaur, I wanted to be a Tyrannosaurus Rex more than anything in the world, I made my arms short and I roamed the back yard, I chased the neighborhood cats, I growled and I roared, everybody knew me and was afraid of me, and one day my dad said "Bobby you are 17, it’s time to throw childish things aside" and I said "OK Pop", but he didn't really say that he said that "Stop being a fucking dinosaur and get a job".

Shelley said...

I like how they tried to make him look like he's rocking out with his sweet headphones but instead looks like he might have Downs Syndrome.

Andy said...

Carlos Tevez?

Morgan said...

robert dee++

Trevor said...
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robgs said...

It looks like someone left Lenny Kravitz under a hot lamp

Trevor said...

Another failure in communication: "Make him look like he rocks" ended up "make him look like t-rex" after being whispered between staff from cubicle-to-cubicle.

The Obsessionist said...

Aww, don't discriminate. His mother was a T-Rex and his father was Gollum. He can't help it that they were his parents. However, he CAN help listening to Celine Dion and jazzing out. He better take off those headphones or ima slap his flatnosed face.

Loner Gamer said...

That head is about to explode due to the power of the "dynamic sound".

Kevin said...

Headphones so easy a caveman could do it.

Justin said...

My preciousss.

Andi said...

12th!

David Mawer said...

An American werewolf in London?

altairu said...

if i'm not mistaken, those are female hands. Right?

Daniele said...
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Pascal said...

This looks like a guy's head was pasted on a woman body (slightly enlarged at the shoulders).

Daniele said...
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Daniele said...

I think this ad really works!
I kept on staring at the silverish left hear headphone and I really didn't notice the non-human head and the T-hands for 1 minute and a half.
More than a PsD this is a Experiment in psych and communication sciences

wv: crock. it's like crack + dymanic sound

Waldobaby said...

I don't get it. What does this have to do with Ralph Lauren???

SpellingDisasters said...

Do you think his thighs are smaller than his hands... ala Ralph Lauren?

Jolyon said...

Haha! I have a pair of those phones on my desk right now.

I don't remember much about the packaging when I bought them 3 years ago at a ROSS in Westwood Los Angeles for $2.99...

Alirat said...

LOL @ Gonk. Gee Cosmo I didn't pick you as being that old..bit of a dinosaur.

Martin said...

WTF... eh... THIS IS THE MISSING LINK!!! We got a photograph of it! SENSATION!!! He's alive!!! WOW!!! You saved my weekend!!!

firejerm said...

The Ralph Lauren fail is now on fail-blog!! go ahead and vote for this one! yeah i posted it.
http://cheezburger.com/View.aspx?aid=2725199616

wv: meout. If those headphones will do that to me, count meout.

tome said...

That there is a Happy Helmet.

Modex said...

it'd be funny if he actually looked like that... well, actually kinda sad really.

zora said...

@robert dee: boats 'n' hos!

i went from chuckle to full fledged laugh from the caption through these comments.

Jerome said...

+1 Robert Dee ! ;-)

Zen said...

He looks like an illustration of the Evolution of Man. :/

Sir Lemming said...

It didn't really look that weird at first, but then... the hands...

Jason said...

The fake shadow on his neck (of his "chin") is a nice touch, even though it clearly isn't from any light source that's shining on the rest of him.

Anna said...

OMG I literally laughed to tears
gooosh! who aproved this?

weebesom said...

Patiently waiting for the first person to say "PSD fail".

Thall said...

I've got a theory that explains this. See, they want people with great hearing (since after all they are making headphones), so they exclusively hire blind people since they heard that going blind can cause your other senses to be heightened. Unfortunately, they didn't think this through and also hired a blind marketing team. And now, given that they they were blind photoshoppers, I'd say they did a pretty fantastic job of showing a human-tyrannosaurus chimera listening to those sweet cans!

Miranda said...

ENCINO MAN LIEK HEADPHONES AND GAZONGAS!

Alhavra said...

He looks like a Neanderthal.

lazykins said...

He is just dinosaurically happy about those head(TM)phones.

dndesign said...

egads.

pootpoot said...

Ich musste lange überlegen, an wen mich Mimik und Pose erinnern, dann kam ich drauf: an irgendeine alte Figur von Dieter Hallervorden. Ich hab die nur vage vor meinem inneren Auge, aber dieser Screencap trifft's ganz gut:

http://www.gameshowkult.de/vssd2.jpg

leatherargento said...

Maybe they said "make him look like he's listening to '[Get It On,] Bang a Gong' by T-Rex," and the Photoshop guy was just sooooooooo stoned that he spaced out for the middle half of the sentence, so: "Make it look like... he's a gonk...like T-Rex"?

karrieann said...

rawr !!!

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Wind in the Willows is missing a character.

Leibson said...

See??
This just proves that evolution is true! Although we didn't exactly come from the gurila...

Figit090 said...

I've seen these headphones at Ross. Maybe it's one reason they're there.

Steve said...

Small hands, smell of cabbage and rubber stamp... hmm, that's odd.

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John Rozier // Photographer said...

Haha yes! Thanks for posting this...I'm glad I'm not the only one to believe this was an epic fail!

J

rhinos7 said...

Geico cavemen are really branching out...

oh, monossílabo said...

I don't understand why he had to be eating seeds.

Jess said...

I think the original body is a woman and then someone decided that dudes rock more.... so they stuck a fugly male face in there. Gruesome....

rosieiswatching said...

That just reminded me of Andre the Giant.

rosieiswatching said...

That picture just reminded of Andre the Giant.

Sam Butler said...

This just makes me continually laugh! ROFLcopter

jacob said...

Did anyone notice the wonderful knit low V neck leotard he is wearing?

Unspecified said...

"...we aren't selling body phones." I cried. Good GRIEF this site's commentary is funny.

Conformist138 said...

I have those... my roommates and i couldn't even believe the packaging. Headphones are great, though, i love them. next time, they would be better off just sticking a white card in the box that says "HEADPHONES" in sharpie.