Pop Art was the dominant movement in early 1960s American art. Short for “popular art,” it featured common household objects and consumer products like Coca-Cola and Campbell’s Soup cans, as well as forms of media—such as comics, newspapers, and magazines—recognizable to the masses. If you’re into pop art and you want to make a pop […]
No matter how independent and brave and modern a woman is, she is still bound to worry about her career in art once she steps inside motherhood territory. This kind of dilemma is also experienced by men but only if they’re not earning enough to support the family. But for women, even if they earn big bucks […]
Award-winning Producer/Writer Jerome Courshon breaks the biggest lies of distribution and gives awesome pieces of advice for indie filmmakers who want to get a distribution deal. Myth: I’m a director, a filmmaker, a creative person. I don’t have to worry about the business stuff. Truth: There are of course some people who get lucky and either have a […]
It’s not easy to be an indie musician today. You have to do everything including marketing your stuff. Good thing there are so many ways to do it thanks to the internet. But because there are so many ways to do it, that means you should strategize. Which ones are you going to focus on and […]
The Koreans are really good at marketing their stuff and we should learn from them. K-pop probably produces the best CD packaging and vinyl record pressing in Los Angeles. Here are some of the cutest K-pop CD packaging: f(x)’s Pink Tape A popular theme for unique albums is to make them look like something else […]
Sometimes, we just want to throw away money on special edition blu rays just because we can. And just because we really, really love these films and we want to remind ourselves (and our guests) that fact by displaying them in our living room. Why not? It’s our money anyways? To prove just how ridiculously amazing […]
It isn’t as easy as finding a good image for your CD artwork, it requires a lot of thought and creativity if you really want your CD packaging to be impressive. It would be a pity to have really great music yet the packaging does not match its greatness. But it doesn’t have to be […]
Yes, their name is VÄG, and yes, they know what it means. But in Swedish, VÄG means road, which is the former name of this psychedelic rock band. Their double entendre name appears on band swag (most popularly on their t-shirts), and a gritty 70s sound was Snask’s inspiration for the logotype, identity, and album cover […]
Crystal-clear vinyl records look so neat that you’d want to show them off to your grumpy father-in-law so he’ll start loving you. It’s no wonder they’re usually the #1 choice for special editions. The clear disc has a bad reputation of having a lesser sound quality than the black vinyl, that is not true if […]
If you need to mail a CD or DVD, you might as well put it in something beautiful (yet still sturdy, of course!). Here are some of the best mailers and folders to impress your recipients: CD wallet This is one of the most affordable mailers and could still look pretty, too. Cardboard Folder CD […]
