Yeah, it’s kinda silly but just in case you thought of having BANANAS as your album artwork’s main subject, here are some of the album covers with bananas! Identify which ones you like and which ones you find ridiculous. Well I kinda like most of them because they look ridiculous. I mean, if you’re see […]
Designed at Real World by Marc Bessant, this ‘scratch my back Collector’s Edition’ is presented in a rigid, full colour and gloss laminated lift off lid box. The cryptic image on the album cover is actually a micrograph of two red blood cells folding over each other, or, depending on the point of view, colliding […]
Here is one of the sickest CD artwork I’ve seen in my entire lifetime! In fact, it’s so sick it becomes a work of art. I like the sweet pastel colors and how they complement to the overall theme. Designer Trevor Brown is an English artist from London presently living in Japan whose work explores […]
You’re soooo busy promoting your band online- in fact you’ve been doing it 5 hours a day for 5 months now. You have signed-up to all the music-related sites you know MySpace, YouTube, Sonic bids, Kickstarter, Spotify, Playlist.com, the list goes on and on. Your aim is to make that viral video, to get 12,000 […]
This week’s collection of music packaging is dedicated to the pyromaniacs. Here are LP and CD covers that involve lots of heat, fire, and burnin. If in the future you decide to have an artwork that involves fire, make sure to come back to this post to check whether your concept has been done by […]
I’ve had countless nightmares of Linda Blair’s rotating head and the epic stairway scene from the Exorcist. Ugh! The film’s images just stick to the head. Once you’ve seen the movie, you can’t just shake it off. There’s no doubt about it-It is one of the most influential horror films of all time. The 1973 […]
The playing field is now leveled. We all have access to the same online tools, the same websites, and preach the same message, ‘Hey! Come check out our band.’ So how is your band going to be effective on the web when everyone is given the same vantage point? How are you to know which […]
You love designing but you don’t want to stay in the same level 5 years from now. You do not want to be glued on your computer chair all your life working for the same kinds of people, on the same kinds of projects, at the same rate. You are simply ambitious and you have […]
About Joshua Marc Levy: Joshua was born Jan 27- the same day as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lewis Carroll. He graduated SVA with honors in 1998 and worked in Entertainment Advertising and the Record Industry afterward. Shortly after leaving SVA, he won many awards including Young Guns, Art Director’s Club and a “First Place Student […]
Would you buy a single worth $3,650? The Swedish rock band Bob Hund released their single Fantastiskt (fantastic) as a 12″ one copy vinyl record that only allows 30 playings. The record was placed on a turntable with the lyrics etched on the turntable lid. It sold on eBay for US $3,650 and became the […]
