I designed the case of Alienware Aurora R9 PC for #CyberUpYourPC contest from CD Project RED and my design was picked to the final 5! In the next phase of the contest with a team of a proffesional modders we have to build it into reality. I can't wait to see it in person.
Guidlines for the contest was pretty specific and complicated. One of the toughest things to include into the design was a statement: "In Night City, the rich and the poor live right next to each other; make this contrast visible in your design". So my entire concept for this was made around the story I came up with:
I was imagining a convoy of Militech hardwere supplies and advanced equipment, that had to ride through some of the toughest and most dangerous areas of the Night City and was eventually overrun by angry mob of people and dismantled.. Every one grabed what he can and run away with valuable military grade stuff. Person who obtain this specific Recon Droid had some primitive solution to hack it and get control over (in case you are wondering, he blew up a side panel and put the cables directly into the core :D) Years went by and the person who was the keeper of it, was repearing it, modifying it and was focused purely on a functionality of it and not about the looks. The owner just engraved two words on it that he was often proudly pronouncing- "Finders Keepers".