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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 the [...]

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2 April 2010

Marion Isobel 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 [...]

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2 April 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

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

Share 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 [...]

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10 March 2010

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

CD Packaging: Worst Album Covers

Share 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 [...]

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5 March 2010

Marion Isobel 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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4 March 2010

Marion Isobel 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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26 February 2010

Chris Bauer 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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18 February 2010

james James Hill

Featured CD Packaging Designer: Lindsey Faye Sherman

Share 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 to San [...]

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7 September 2009

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

CD Packaging: Chickenfoot’s “Heat Sensitive” Cover

ShareThe new supergroup band which comprises Van Halen and Red Hot Chili Peppers Members launched their debut CD with an inventive packaging. The album packaging, when heated up by the simple touch of a hand, will change opacity, revealing hidden images on the cover and hidden song titles on the back cover. The packaging is [...]

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29 July 2009

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

Featured Designers: Three Bears Design

ShareNortheast Ohio is home to our next group of featured designers, Three Bears Design. The creative and well educated group, with degrees from art and design institutions across the Northwest, enjoy creating all sorts of projects, including illustrated t-shirts, catalogs, show posters, and of course: compact discs. Today, we’re proudly displaying their “Sospiri” project, designed [...]

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21 January 2009

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer