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CD Packaging: What Makes a Great CD Packaging

ShareCD packaging may seem less significant than the actual CD inside it but nevertheless, it still plays a very important role in promoting your album. It is one of the best ways to advertise your music and it could greatly affect album sales. A really eye-grabbing CD packaging can even convince customers to buy [...]

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Marion Isobel

2 April 2010

Marion Isobel

Kick-Ass Packaging of the Week: Zinkplaat’s Mooi Besoedeling

ShareOne of the reasons why I love the French film Amelie is because it gives attention to the simple everyday pleasures in life. Little things like inserting your hands on a bag of beans, peeling off old wallpaper, popping bubblewrap, cracking crème brulee with a teaspoon, or breaking foil seals.
If you are like me who’s [...]

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Chris Bauer

2 April 2010

Chris Bauer

CD Packaging of the Week: Spinal Tap’s ‘Back From the Dead’

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This awesome packaging by Brian Porizek was nominated in the recent Grammy Awards for Best Packaging alongside Sagmeister’s work for Byrne & Eno and four other nominees. Sagmeister bagged the trophy but I should say this one is almost equally remarkable.
What I love most about this CD packaging is that it involves the buyers [...]

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Chris Bauer

10 March 2010

Chris Bauer

CD Packaging: Worst Album Covers

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Last night, I was running low on album cover ideas so I decided to look for great CD covers online hoping for inspiration to hit me before the night ends. As I was lazily fumbling through websites and google images, I stumbled upon some of the most ridiculous CD covers I’ve ever seen in my [...]

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Marion Isobel

5 March 2010

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging of the Week: Byrne & Eno’s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

ShareIf you like Vonnegut Dollhouse’s uber cool CD packaging, then it is without a doubt that you will love this,too. I do, I do, I do a million time over! This limited  Sagmeister-designed package of David Byrne and Brian Eno’s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today is just so A-W-E-S-O-M-E! In fact, it has convinced [...]

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Marion Isobel

4 March 2010

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging: Tips for Graphic Designers

It takes more than great talent for a graphic artist to make it big in the CD Packaging industry. You have to be updated with the CD packaging trends and technology, you should know how to communicate with the musicians, and most importantly you have to know basic work ethics.

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Chris Bauer

26 February 2010

Chris Bauer

CD Packaging: How to Conceptualize a Creative CD Packaging

CD packaging plays a very vital role in the music retail industry. Aside from its obvious function which is to protect and store CDs, the CD packaging has lots of other functions. It increases product sales, defines a band’s image, and many others. If you are a designer or if you are a musician who wants to create his own CD packaging, here is a step-by-step guide that you might find useful.

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james

18 February 2010

James Hill

Featured CD Packaging Designer: Lindsey Faye Sherman

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Hi Lindsey! Could you tell us something about yourself?
I’ve always had the knack for creating colorful concepts and jarring composition either through fine arts or media based design. I studied graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art, graduating in 2009 Magna Cum Laude. After graduating, I decided to travel west [...]

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Marion Isobel

7 September 2009

Marion Isobel

Kick-Ass CD Packaging of the Week: Vonnegut Dollhouse

ShareI know this album was out two years ago but I just cannot not include it on my Kick-Ass Packaging list! I am a sucker for miniatures so you must have an idea how much I drooled over this very inventive Vonnegut Dollhouse CD packaging by Jeff Harrison of Rethink Communications.
He actually built scale models [...]

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Marion Isobel

25 August 2009

Marion Isobel

CD Packaging: Forget About Saving the Planet

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Due to the economic meltdown, eco-friendly packaging is off the priority list of many record companies. “Green packaging is way down on my list right now,” says the head of one U.S. independent distributor, adding that there are “bigger problems to worry about.”
“We’re thinking about another kind of green right now,” says Duncan Browne, COO [...]

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Marion Isobel

1 August 2009

Marion Isobel

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