Album: Amnesiac Artist: Radiohead Cover Artist: Stanley Donwood Year: 2002 This wonderfully done packaging won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 2002. That’s almost a decade ago but this packaging has managed to keep its appeal intact. It ...
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So this is it! After many years of religiously practicing in your garage, your band finally came up with a good set of songs and released an album. Luckily and to your surprise, many people actually liked it. You’ve gathered ...
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This 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 ...
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Before anything else, check out this really awesome video about t-shirts: Too awesome, isn't it? I dunno if it's related to my whole post but I just can't help but share this video. Well, at the very least, the vid ...
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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, ...
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Blogging is one great online tool for musicians to gain more fans. It would help you build a solid fanbase if you broadcast your life, philosophies, opinions, rants, and frustrations online since it creates an intimate (albeit virtual) relationship with ...
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FOR THE WHOLE KIT Develop a Concept: It matters if you have developed a good concept for the whole kit so that each piece or page is recognizable as part of the kit. This gives the impression that you really ...
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The 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 ...
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YouTube, can create a MySpace, Facebook, Twitter account for their band promotion, can blog about their lives to gather followers.  And if they have the recording equipment and CD burners at home, they can actually make their album at a ...
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It is a known fact that CD sales have plummeted in the last decade and are down about 50 percent from their peak. The decline of CD sales — and, more recently, of DVD sales — has forced the music ...
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