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CD Packaging: Music in a Pizza Box

ShareThis 5-track short release by California Nintendo-core rockers HORSE the Band is a tribute to the band’s favorite food-PIZZA. The CD looks like a pepperoni and cheese pizza, it comes in a pizza box complete with ‘grease stains’ in the right places, there are coupons and even that little stand that keeps the pizza from [...]

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9 June 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Music Packaging: Dos and Don’ts of Music Packaging

Share So you’ve been wracking your brains out and squeezing every droplet of creative juice for the most awesome CD packaging ever. It’s not easy but I am sure that it would all be worth it once you see people’s “wow, cool!” expressions when they see your CD packaging. You realized just how important CD [...]

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8 June 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

CD Packaging: The “Found Photography” Fad

ShareThe fad of using ‘found photography’ Polaroid images as the main artwork for CDs is back again. It makes me wonder why. Do they genuinely see the beauty in it as it is? Are they Dada artists (anti-art) who try to rebel against society’s standards and conventions of art? Do they want to mock CD [...]

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4 June 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Music Packaging: Music Albums in USB (From Bob Marley to Lady Gaga)

ShareMusic albums in USB flash drive format is not a new thing. In fact, it has been around for almost 3 years now. With the USB drive, not only can musicians pack in MP3 files, but exclusive video interviews, music videos and band member profiles.  It’s a unique way to release music, create a buzz [...]

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2 June 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Music Packaging: Marrow’s Sunshine Enema

ShareMusician: Marrow Album: Sunshine Enema Designers: Jeremy & Erin Fortes Marrow, a dark electro-pop group, released their latest album “Sunshine Enema” on a pill-shaped USB drive that is held in a sunny-looking medicine bottle. Very innovative! This was designed by the band members Jeremy & Erin Fortes. “We realized that it was essential for us [...]

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2 June 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Featured CD Packaging Designer: Sam Hayles aka DOSEprod

ShareSam Hayles is an independent art-director and graphic designer currently living in Scotland.  He has been designing for 15 years and worked as a freelance designer since 2005 under the name ‘DOSE-productions‘ (DOSEprod). A lot of his works are music and art related, (working with musicians, bands and artists he can relate to). His core [...]

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26 May 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

CD Manufacturing: Making an Album on a Budget

ShareThere is a very big distinction between frugal and cheap. Frugality is spending smartly and saving where we can so we still have cash leftover for the things that are important.  Most Indies want to be frugal when it comes to CD Manufacturing. Some musicians are concerned more on spending less because they have no [...]

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23 May 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

CD Packaging: Physical Fanatics Want Innovative Releases

ShareBased on findings by the Future Business Research Group and described as the first-ever industry-wide segmentation of the British music-buying public, the study found that ‘Physical Fanatics’ were among the segment of music fans prepared to spend significantly on CDs and vinyl recordings. “Physical fanatics represent about 11% of the [U.K. music-buying] population and about [...]

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22 May 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Featured CD Packaging Designer: Perttu Murto

SharePerttu Murto is a 24-year-old graphic designer /art director /illustrator from Finland. He has been involved in graphics for almost 8 years. At a young age, he was selected as the Young Advertisement Designer of the Year for 2007 in Northern Finland and he worked for big companies such as Dolce & Gabbana. His works [...]

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19 May 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

DVD Packaging: Over-the-top DVD Box Sets for Collectors

ShareHere are some over-the-top DVD/ Bluray sets that I’ve seen that really made me go woah! They are selling the toys or gadgets more than they’re selling the actual DVD. It’s as if the DVD or Bluray is just additional requirement for the toys to sell more but because they’re supposed to sell the product [...]

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14 May 2010

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

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