CD Packaging: GRAMMY Winners for Album Cover Design – Eighties
1980 Graphic artists: Mick Haggerty & Mike Doud Album: Breakfast in America Musician: Supertramp 1981 Graphic artists: Roy Kohara Album: Against the Wind Musician: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band 1982 Graphic artists: Peter Corriston Album: Tattoo You Musician: ...
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CD Packaging: GRAMMY Winners for Album Cover Design – Seventies
Grammy Awards began presenting awards for Best Album Cover in 1959, recognizing the growing artistry of the 'face' of recorded music releases. From 1962 to 1965 it was separated into Classical and Non-Classical divisions. From 1966 to 1968 it was ...
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Indie Musician Tips: Blog to Maintain a Loyal Fanbase
his blog before his music. (update: he deactivated it after his breakup with TP.wtf). A friend of mine recommended his site two years ago and since then, I’ve been a follower of his blog…and about a month’s time of reading ...
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Music Industry: Why Stealing Sucks (PSA Video)
Here is a playful approach of U.S. indie label trade group A2IM in convincing people to pay the musicians for their music because stealing or ‘getting music for free’ is slowly killing the music industry. This catchy video is part ...
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Featured CD Packaging Designer: Seldon Hunt
Seldon Hunt has been working as an art director, designer and illustrator since 1995. In recent years much of his output has been devoted to creating a diverse and highly recognizable body of visuals that have become synonymous with contemporary ...
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CD Packaging of the Week: Faker's 'Be The Twilight'
Band: Faker Album: Be The Twilight Designer: Debaser Year: 2007 This album art has an eerie feel to it that draws me in and makes me remember all my childhood fears about the woods. It takes me back to my ...
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CD Packaging: Time, Money and Creativity -What to do with these 3 limitations
There are no hard rules in designing a creative CD packaging but there are definitely some limitations in the actual production. You have to know each one of them so you would know how to work around them and still ...
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Music Packaging: Clown Covers
So I was browsing through some LP and CD covers again today(I wonder why I'm doing this a lot) and all of a sudden a bright idea came to mind. Since I'm researching about everything music packaging almost everyday, why ...
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Featured CD Packaging Designer: Duncan Long
My Q&A with Duncan Long is not very long but it is very insightful. This guy is not only talented and smart; he also has a wicked sense of humor. He sent me this self-portrait saying “this will give your ...
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