Some friends and I were talking about how horrible the art has always been from hardware companies, specifically the Asian firms who, despite having millions of dollars in sales, still seem to hire artists from middle schools obsessed with warrior women, fantasy animals, and monster trucks.

So I want to build a gallery of the truly horrible examples of the form. Two things, specifically: the really wretched box art above; the hilariously ugly software utilities that ship with the hardware, like the infamous overclocking widgets with no antialiasing shaped like spaceships and shuriken. If we can get enough stuff put together over the weekend I'll put up the whole gallery on Monday.

To add your contribution, either drop a link in the comments or add it directly to our general Flickr pool. I'd appreciate the help. Also, there's no era too old. Bad designs from the '70s and '80s are fair game, too.