movie poster design

5 Tips For Making Movie Posters

Although a movie poster can be a creative playground, you still need to know the basics in creating one especially if you are planning to impress your professor (or first client) and you have a deadline to beat. Here are ...
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/ Chris Bauer
vinyl packaging design

Vinyl Record Packaging: Run Hide Survive- Show Off

A 12- Layer screenprint which was included as part of the first Showoff 12" vinyl record pressing in LA release by Sheffield based production duo RUN HIDE SURVIVE. The 12" record sleeve is plain white with a central hole that ...
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/ Marion Isobel
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Indie Musicians: Top 5 Tips for Building Your Brand Online

Building a brand is the single most important skill a music artist, indie label or band should learn if they intend to promote their works to a larger audience. Thanks to the internet, and the growing popularity of social media, ...
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/ Chris Bauer
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Wedding Invitation that Turns Into Paper Record Player

A wedding invitation that plays a record? I bet you haven't received an invitation as cool as this! Except, of course, if you are one of the 150 guests of Karen Sandler and Mike Tarantino who received this awesome wedding ...
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/ Chris Bauer
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Die Cutting, Scoring, and Folding

Custom CD/DVD boxes, gatefold cases, invitation cards, and almost all custom packaging boxes require professional die-cutting, scoring, and folding. These are finishing techniques that require much care and attention if you want your custom pieces to look good. With proper ...
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/ Erick Yankton
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DVD Packaging: TMNT’s Pizza Box Set

Craving for some hot, oven-fresh kung-fu action? Here’s a truly delectable Lionsgate’s special delivery DVD box set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 5. It features a Pizza Box packaging with 3 discs containing all 18 episodes from the 5th ...
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/ Chris Bauer
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CD Duplication: 5 Reasons Why You Should NOT DIY

Burning CDs from your desktop computer can be leaned in less than 5 minutes. Heck, almost anybody can do it! Aside from that, the prices of CD duplication equipment (aka CD burners) are also going down, down, down that almost ...
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/ Marion Isobel
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Music is dying. Music is Thriving. Which is it?

Music is dying if you believe the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). Music is a growing business if you believe Apple, Google, Spotify, Yahoo Music, Artist Direct, My Space Music, Pandora and hundreds of other options. They're right - ...
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/ Chris Bauer
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Graphic Designers: Get to Know Custom Packaging Materials

If you want to become a CD packaging designer, then it is very important that you know how materials work. Designing custom CD packages require not only brilliant concepts and good software skills-you need be an expert on the materials, ...
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/ Chris Bauer
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Typographic Movie Posters that Pack a Punch

A poster should be imaginative and witty or else it’s just another piece of marketing trash. It should get people’s attention the second they see it. And the image and message of the poster should retain in their heads for ...
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/ Marion Isobel