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A darkly lit spread of A Profound Waste of Time issues showing how the special Issue 1 glows in the dark.
Dramatically lit spread of a collection of A Profound Waste of Time magazines. Issue 3 shows an illustration of Trico from the game The Last Guardian by Fumito Ueda, illustrated by mako. Issue 4 shows an illustration of Chell from the game Portal by Valve, illustrated by Molly Mendoza. Issue 1 shows an illustration of Shovel Knight by Yacht Club Games, illustrated by Dan Mumford.
EST 2016

A decade of Timeless work

  • Inspired by videogames
  • Inspired by videogames
  • Inspired by videogames
  • Inspired by videogames
  • Inspired by videogames
  • Inspired by videogames
Full magazine spread from Issue 1 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring multiple people building a rocket ship. Illustrated by Kyle Smart.
Detail illustration from Issue 1 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring a man building a rocket. Illustrated by Kyle Smart.
Full magazine spread from Issue 1 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring a spaceship landing in a jungle.
Detail illustration shot from from Issue 4 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring a yellow plane landed in a snowy landscape.
Full magazine spread from Issue 4 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring the characters of Suikoden standing in front of a crowd for the article "The Strength of Many".
Detail shot from Issue 4 of A Profound Waste of Time of the characters from Suiken standing in front of a crowd.
Full magazine spread from Issue 2 of A Profound Waste of Time showing Keita Takahashi's characters on a green field. Noby Noby Boy is eating the last few words on the page.
Close up illustration from issue 2 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring Team Cherry's Hollow Knight walking through a windy path. Illustrated by mako.
Full magazine spread from Issue 2 of A Profound Waste of Time showing a UFO carrying a sprouting egg.
Magazine spread of Issue 1 of A Profound Waste of Time with an insert of Jenny Jiao Hsia's personal journal.
Detail spread from Issue 2 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring the king of the cosmos from Katamari Damacy surrounded by other characters from Keita Takahashi's games.
Full magazine spread from issue 2 of A Profound Waste of Time featuring the main character from the game Mother.
Detail spread from the magazine A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5.
Open spread of the magazine A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5.
Detail of an illustration by Molly Mendoza of Powerwash Simulator for the magazine A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5.
Open spread of the magazine A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5. Featuring colourful water illustrations by Molly Mendoza of Powerwash Simulator.
Detail image of the magazine A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5. Featuring a bright yellow page with the illustration of a car leaving sound waves in its wake.
Open spread of a magazine showing bright yellow pages with an illustration of a car. From the magazine A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5.
Back in stock This November

Issue 5 Reprint

Two standing foldouts of A Profound Waste of Time Issue 5s featuring Vanillaware's Unicorn Overlord. One shows the front, the other the back cover. The back cover shows the villain characters of Unicorn Overlord charging foward. The front cover shows the hero characters of Unicorn Overlord charging forward. Side by side it looks like the two armies charging towards each other.

Freshly Reprinted

A dramatically lit trilogy collection of A Profound Waste of Time. Issues 1, 2 and 3 are slipping out of the trilogy slipcase. Slipcase designed by Lundqvist. Issue 1 featuring Shovel Knight, Issue 2 featuring Keita Takahashi and Issue 3 featuring Fumito Ueda.
A dramatically lit trilogy collection of A Profound Waste of Time. Issues 1, 2 and 3 are pulled out of a Trilogy Slipcase. Slipcase designed by Lundqvist. Issue 1 features Shovel Knight, Issue 2 features Keita Takahashi and Issue 3 features Fumito Ueda.

SLIPCASES

  • Rotated view of the trilogy slipcase of A Profound Waste of Time housing issues 1, 2 and 3. Featuring the letters A, P, W, O, T in black on a white background. Designed by Lundqvist.

    The APWOT Trilogy Slipcase

    For issues 1-3

    A beautiful slipcase

  • Rotated view of the astral slipcase housing A Profound Waste of Time issues 4, 5 and 6. Featuring the words O, T and part of a W in a Gothic illustrated manuscript style. An octopus pokes out of the O, an ent hugs the T and a dragon wraps around the W. Designed by Reiko Okomoto.

    Astral Slipcase

    For APWOT issues 4-6

    A beautiful slipcase

An animated illustration of a celestial giant flying over trees and houses during a beautiful day. For the album Giants.

Projects

  • An illustration of seven kids happy on a hill. The giant hand of a celestial giant reaches down to fist bump one of the kids. For the album Giants.
  • The contents of the Giants CD are laid out neatly on a blue background. The closed CD case shows a boy running up to a giant flying over a suburb. The open CD case shows a starry night inside illustration. The first disk has an illustration of a giant standing over a small boy. The second disk is a close up of the giants face holding happy kids in the palm of his hand. The booklet is blue with yellow and white text and illustrations of the kids walking together.
  • An illustration of a boy and a floating cute creature sitting under a starry sky next to a telescope. The boy points up at four dramatic shooting stars above them. For the album Giants.

GIANTS

Album Design and Art Direction

Featuring stunning illustrations by Matt Cummings, and designed by awards-winning British designer Caspian Whistler and ex-Bungie Andrew Elmore. This CD and Vinyl release includes the full GIANTS album on two discs, plus a 20-page booklet with commentary by director Mohammed Taher and the legion of participating game composers.