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Graphic Design: Top 10 Resources for Design Inspiration

On 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 ...
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Music Packaging: Very HAIRY Album Art

Orleans: Waking and Dreaming Pixies: Come on Pilgrim Herbie Mann: Push Push Fabulous Diamonds: 7 Songs Saveta Jovanovic: Lažno je, lažno, sve što je tvoje Prince: Planet Earth _______________________________________________________________________________ Unified Manufacturing is a custom CD/DVD and Vinyl Manufacturing facility based on ...
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Indie Music: Top 10 YouTube Covers

Amy Mae Elliot and originally appeared on the Mashable blog. If there’s one thing YouTube has always been good for, it is as a platform for the common man to express himself. That is the very basis of its user-generated ...
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Indie Musicians: How to Turn Off Your Fans

Be fashionably late. Always. It is a good idea if you play 30 to 45 minutes late because for sure, there would be more people present in the venue by then. You are simply concerned for those late fans who ...
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Green Musician: Study on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emission Impacts of International Touring

Julie’s Bicycle, the U.K. environmental body that works for the creative industries, recently launched a detailed study on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission impacts of international touring which encourages artists to reduce their carbon emissions. ‘Moving Arts: managing the carbon ...
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CD Packaging: How to Come up With a Creative CD Packaging

Get to know the musicians Before you even start to think of ideas for the CD packaging, you must first get to know the musicians. Do a quick online research about them before you have your first meeting. And during ...
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CD Packaging of the Week: Monkey Majik by Artless

Artist: Monkey Majik Albums: Fly (Single), Around the World (Single), Thank You Art director: Artless Three albums, one concept. Each album art can stand independently on its own but the overall appeal can be seen when the three albums are ...
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Indie Musician Advice: Give it all you've got or just don't do it

You have dreamt about this forever and ever and a day. You can't think of doing anything else. Ever. You finally get your musical ambitions in order--maybe your artist has just finished an overdue release, or maybe this is your ...
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