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November 2008

Featured Designer: Althea Aseoche

ShareToday, Let Me See Your Package is featuring the work of designer Althea Aseoche. Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Althea is a talented young creative with original, inspiring ideas. Her DVD and booklet box set, pictured below, takes a fun twist on the standard DVD digipak design. She also drew inspiration from the Lord of the [...]

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26 November 2008

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Peter Jenner blames iTunes for Industry shortcomings

ShareIt’s funny how, after all that has happened, all we’ve learned, some old school industry types still don’t get it: Sincere Management’s Peter Jenner, the keynote speaker at the Coalition of The Billing event, said that digital retailer has “had the disastrous effect on the record industry of debundling the album”. He told delegates at [...]

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25 November 2008

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EMI CEO: “We didn’t adapt fast enough”

ShareEMI CEO Elio Leoni-Sceti had strong words recently about the current state of the music business, saying that paying for music is seen by consumers as “voluntary”.  As for why music sales have fallen over 20% over the last three years, this is how Leoni-Sceti responded: “Partly because we didn’t adapt fast enough,” he answered. [...]

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25 November 2008

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Vinyl Manufacturing: Want to see your favorite record on vinyl?

ShareThe Vinyl Collective may be worth checking out. The Vinyl Collective is a place for fans of vinyl, artists, and record labels to work together towards getting more albums put on wax. 220 members of the group vote on which albums they would like to see pressed into vinyl. Once an album is selected, the [...]

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24 November 2008

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Apple in talks to offer more DRM free music

ShareAccording to CNet, there is a rumor that Apple is in talks with Sony Music Entertainment, among two other major record labels to offer their catalog on the iTunes music service without the standard DRM restrictions. Amazon has been selling DRM free music from major labels for more than a year now, so we know [...]

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24 November 2008

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DVD Packaging: Mad Men’s Zippo-style Pack

Share Created by Matthew Weiner, the hit TV show “Mad Men” has a hit DVD package to go along with it. This shiny DVD box is designed to mimic the zippo style cigarette lighters used by the chain smoking characters on screen. Produced by Lionsgate Television, the DVD set is the kind of purchase where [...]

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21 November 2008

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DVD Packaging: Wall-E DVD

SharePixar’s WALL-E DVD packaging isn’t short on awesome. Released just a couple days ago, it features raised printing with a glossy effect on the cover. In a move towards eco friendliness, the only plastic used is in the shrink wrap, and the cardboard case is 100% recyclable. In addition to the standard DVD disc and [...]

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20 November 2008

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CD Packaging: Beck and 8-Bit

ShareThis collaboration album between Beck and 8-bit, a robot gangster rap group (you read that right)  has quite the story behind it. Originally Beck and his  record label, Interscope Records, planned on around 30 independent artists remix Beck’s music. Somehow 8-bit, out of Highland Park, CA, ended up producing the track “Ghettochip Malfunction” almost entirely [...]

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20 November 2008

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Unified Manufacturing to Release Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can: Voices of a Grass Roots Movement”

Share For Immediate Release Friday, November 21st, 2008 UNIFIED MANUFACTURING TO RELEASE HISTORIC COMPILATION INSPIRED BY BARACK OBAMA’S GROUNDBREAKING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 18-SONG DISC CONTAINS MATERIAL FROM A DIVERSE RANGE OF ARTISTS INCLUDING STEVIE WONDER, SHERYL CROW, JOHN MAYER, KANYE WEST, JILL SCOTT, JACKSON BROWNE, BEBE WINANS, LIONEL RICHIE, OZOMATLI, DAVE STEWART, KEB’ MO’, ADAM LEVINE, [...]

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12 November 2008

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