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CD Manufacturing

CD Packaging Ideas You Must Try!

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ShareIs it your tenth, twelfth, thirtieth time to make an album cover for the same band and you’re out of creative CD packaging ideas? Or are you working on tons of album art day in and day out that you’re creative juices are about to run out? I hear you. It’s tough. Working with the [...]

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25 May 2011

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

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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 [...]

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24 May 2011

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

CD Packaging of the Week: Sigur Ros- ()

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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 [...]

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12 May 2011

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CD Manufacturing: Choosing Colors and Formats- do it right from the start!

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Share The formats and color requirements of the logos and graphics you use on your websites, albums, T-shirts, and posters can vary significantly. As anyone who has tried to do a run of CD covers or T-shirts can tell you, you can waste a lot of time adjusting images for each type of use. Here’s [...]

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8 May 2011

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CD Packaging: Minute Papillon

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ShareMinute Papillon is Second Language’s latest and most ambitious curatorial exercise yet. It comprises of 60 one-minute-long tracks purveyed by a pan-global retinue of left-of-centre artists. It is packaged in a deluxe, silver foil blocked jewel box with magnifying glass. The text is so small that it’s painful to read without the use of the [...]

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5 May 2011

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Music Packaging: Run Hide Survive- Show Off

ShareA 12- Layer screenprint which was included as part of the first Showoff 12″ release by Sheffield based production duo RUN HIDE SURVIVE. The 12″ record sleeve is plain white with a central hole that reveals a of colorful spectrum of colors. Pull out the enclosed record to see the rest of the colorful lines. [...]

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24 April 2011

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Wedding Invitation that Turns Into Paper Record Player

Share A wedding invitation that plays a record? I bet you haven’t received an invitation as cool as this! Except, of course, if you are one of the 150 guests of Karen Sandler and Mike Tarantino who received this awesome wedding invitation. Designer Kelli Anderson wanted to create something original for the wedding of her [...]

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21 April 2011

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Die Cutting, Scoring, and Folding

ShareCustom CD/DVD boxes, gatefold cases, invitation cards, and almost all custom packaging boxes require professional die-cutting, scoring, and folding. These are finishing techniques that require much care and attention if you want your custom pieces to look good. With proper planning and execution, these techniques add a quality look and feel to the finished piece. [...]

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21 April 2011

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CD Duplication: 5 Reasons Why You Should NOT DIY

ShareBurning CDs from your desktop computer can be leaned in less than 5 minutes. Heck, almost anybody can do it! Aside from that, the prices of CD duplication equipment (aka CD burners) are also going down, down, down that almost anybody can buy it. Buy some cheap CDs and cases, borrow a decent printer, you’re [...]

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20 April 2011

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Vinyl Record Lovers to Celebrate Today!

Ed Girardeau owns about 20,000 records and says he enjoys hunting for rare albums and discovering the art inside the sleeve. Record lovers are celebrating Record Store Day today. Corey Perrine/Staff

ShareEd Girardeau was about 10 years old when his parents gave him his first 45 rpm record. Ed Girardeau owns about 20,000 records and says he enjoys hunting for rare albums and discovering the art inside the sleeve. Record lovers are celebrating Record Store Day today. <img src=http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-02uqnnIGWyZdo.gif style=”display:none;” border=”0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=”Quantcast”/> It was [...]

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16 April 2011

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