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Marion Isobel

Album Artwork Parody: Whipped Cream and Other Delights

Share This is the very popular cover of Herp Alpert’s album, Whipped Cream and Other Delights. I find the cover quite tacky and awkward but I dunno… it may be one of the sexiest album covers in the sixties. Whether people find it tacky,funny, sexy, or sweet, there’s no doubt that it gathered a lot [...]

21 June 2011

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging of the Week: MVSICA

Share Designed by Sawdust, United Kingdom. Here’s another CD packaging we can add to our highly entertaining albums list. This limited edition packaging for the MSVICA CD comes with a random colored tiddlywink so you can scratch off the gold latex panels that cover the text on the packaging. What I love about it , aside [...]

15 June 2011

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging: How to Spend Less Without Compromising Quality

Share It’s easy to design a kick-ass artwork when you have big bucks to blow. You can use whatever material you want, you can hire the most sophisticated art director in town, you can add whatever items you like. In other words, you have more freedom with your designs. But, this doesn’t happen even to [...]

14 June 2011

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging of the Week: Keramick & Lobo- The Braille

ShareArtist: Keramick & Lobo Album: The Braille Label: Exogenic Breaks Year: 2009 Designer: Antti Heikkinen Antti Heikkinen created this clean and playful packaging for Keramick & Lobo, an electroacoustic band from Helsinki, Finland. “The wonderful electroacoustic band Keramick & Lobo released their second album “The Braille” in August 2009. I designed their visual identity including [...]

7 June 2011

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging

CD Packaging of the Week: Girl Echo Suns Veils- lovesliescrushing

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ShareArtist:lovesliescrushing Album: Girl Echo Suns Veils Label: Projekt Year: 2010 Designer: Scott Cortez Lovesliescrushing’s music creates foreboding feelings of danger, desperation,nostalgia, cheerlessness…and these feelings are translated well in the album packaging of their latest album, Girl Echo Suns Veils. The Special Edition packaging is a hand-made wooden box with a slip door opening. It is [...]

2 June 2011

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging of the Week: Pat Metheny Group- Imaginary Day

ShareArtist: Pat Metheny Group Album: Imaginary Day Label: Warner Bros Year: 2007 Designer: Sagmeister, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________________ Here’s another highly entertaining album art by the CD cover guru, Stefan Sagmeister. The guy surely has compassion for the bored people like me who are tired of seeing the same old album covers. Thank you, Stefan! This is [...]

24 May 2011

Marion Isobel

Band Promotion: Put Some Thought Into Your Sticker Designs

ShareAre you a new indie band looking for offline ways to market your music? Here’s my tip: Give out kick-ass stickers! When I say give out, I mean you give them for FREE to anyone and everyone! Consider having a very cool sticker as a wise investment for your music career. It is a big [...]

21 May 2011

Marion Isobel

filmmaking

Indie Filmmakers: Tips for a Successful Kickstarter Project

Share Kickstarter gives hope to indie filmmakers who have no cash to spare for their passion. You just pitch your concept and ask funds from people around the globe who see the potential of your film. But it’s not that easy. First, Kickstarter has a deadline for every project and second, there are lots of [...]

18 May 2011

Marion Isobel

DVD Packaging

DVD Packaging: Shawshank Redemption 10th Anniversary Memorial Box

ShareThis is a Japanese DVD release for Shawshank Redemption‘s 10th Anniversary Memorial Box. The shoebox-type carton has a tin box with lots of Shawshank goodies inside including a Special edition DVD, Shawshank booklets, and a leather book cover. This Memorial Box is ultra rare and very hard to find. Nuno DVD ____________________________________________________________________________ Unified Manufacturing is [...]

17 May 2011

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging of the Week: Sigur Ros- ()

ShareThis may not be one of the best albums of the Icelandic post-rock band, Sigur Ros, but the artwork is too wonderful that people purchase it just for the artwork alone (not that their music is bad). Just like the music of Sigur Ros, the album packaging has this icy, distant, removed feel. Kind of [...]

12 May 2011

Marion Isobel

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Marion Isobel

Album Artwork Parody: Whipped Cream and Other Delights

CD Packaging of the Week: MVSICA

CD Packaging: How to Spend Less Without Compromising Quality

CD Packaging of the Week: Keramick & Lobo- The Braille

CD Packaging of the Week: Girl Echo Suns Veils- lovesliescrushing

CD Packaging of the Week: Pat Metheny Group- Imaginary Day

Band Promotion: Put Some Thought Into Your Sticker Designs

Indie Filmmakers: Tips for a Successful Kickstarter Project

DVD Packaging: Shawshank Redemption 10th Anniversary Memorial Box

CD Packaging of the Week: Sigur Ros- ()

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