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Vinyl Packaging

Music Packaging: Raise a Glass of…

ShareAnd for this week’s music packaging concepts…Music Packaging with drinks. Kampai!
To view the complete list of artwork themes that we’ve complied, scroll down to the bottom of this post.

All photos are from: LPCoverLover
Here is the list of Artwork themes that we’ve compiled so far:
Guns
Cigarettes
Sharks
Roses
Telephones
Body Hair
Aliens and Outerspace
Piano
Animals
Clowns

29 August 2010

Chris Bauer

Music Packaging: How to Get Creative with TELEPHONES

ShareFor this week, I want to feature covers with TELEPHONES in it. Back in the day when the telephone was the main medium of communication, the telephone certainly became a very prominent subject in the artworld-especially because the telephones back then look classy and well…artistic compared to the phones today. The featured creative covers on [...]

2 July 2010

Marion Isobel

Featured Vinyl Packaging: Journal of Popular Noise

ShareThe Journal of Popular Noise is a semi-annual audio magazine inspired by the traditions of pop music, printed periodicals, and the delight of a finely crafted artifact. The hand-folded packaging folds out to a beautiful letter-pressed poster that has information about the journal, the artists, and the process of composition.

Looks really good and will definitely [...]

1 July 2010

Chris Bauer

Music Packaging: The Making of The Infesticon’s LP Packaging

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The Infesticons recently released a new LP titled “Bedford Park” which is the third and final part of the Infesticons concept trilogy. Big Dada Recordings say that it is one of the highest quality packages they have ever put together. It includes a screen-printed outer sleeve with gold text, full colour inner sleeve with battle [...]

25 June 2010

Marion Isobel

Graphic Design: Top 10 Resources for Design Inspiration

ShareOn a daily basis, designers are challenged to constantly be inspired by the world around them. It’s hard to be on top of your game every day, and sometimes you’re just left completely and utterly uninspired. Thankfully, there are plenty of visual resources on the web where designers and creatives can [...]

25 June 2010

Marion Isobel

Music Packaging: Creepiest Covers of All Time

ShareAre you having a boring weekend? Here’s something that could perk your senses a little. Try to stare at these CD covers for more than five seconds and wait for a story to unfold in your head. Oh, it is freakishly fun! You could actually create a horror movie scene just with these pictures.
The lady [...]

6 June 2010

Marion Isobel

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 to bring the same kind [...]

2 June 2010

Marion Isobel

Vinyl Packaging: Album sleeve that transforms into a record player

ShareA record sleeve that plays the record it contains? Please! You cannot fool me. There’s no such thing unless the said ’sleeve’ is actually a gramophone. But what a bulky and expensive sleeve it would be.
Yes folks, it may sound unbelievable but there is such a thing and it does work. This brilliant invention is [...]

30 May 2010

Marion Isobel

Vinyl Manufacturing: Vinyl is too wonderful of a medium to die

ShareWhy would an indie band put their album on vinyl?
It’s the coolest format.not everyone can have access to it.if you don’t want your music to go everywhere,it’s one way of having control over your product.
Will vinyl ever die?
“No. Absolutely not. It’s too wonderful of a medium.” says Thomas Bernich, owner of a Vinyl pressing factory [...]

29 May 2010

Marion Isobel

Why Vinyl Never Goes Out of Style

ShareI grew up with hundreds of records in our house because my dad is a major vinyl geek. He treats each one of them like a newborn baby-always with clean hands and only with the gentlest touch. And almost everytime, I see him beaming with pride when he arranges his records oh so carefully. I [...]

28 May 2010

Marion Isobel