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DVD Packaging with HANDS

Horror films love hands in their movie posters and DVD artwork. Hands can show struggle, pain, anger, and desperation. And as we all know, hands are used to slice, chop, and strangle among others.  Here are movie posters and DVD artwork that use HANDS. Of course, we’ll start with Psycho. _____________________________________________________________ Unified Manufacturing is a custom […]

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Music News: Dido Sued by Astronaut Album Cover Star

Bruce McCandless II, the first astronaut to make an untied or untethered ‘free flight’ in space, is suing Dido over the cover art for her 2008 album ‘Safe Trip Home’ for using his picture without permission. The cover shows McCandless ‘free flying’ in space, around 320 meters away from the cargo bay of the space […]

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CD Packaging for Beginners

Are you a design student about to make your very first CD packaging project? Or are you a band member who decided to do D-I-Y CD packaging for your next album? Then you must already know by now that creating a CD packaging-an attention-grabbing CD packaging-from scratch is not a piece of cake. We are […]

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CD Packaging: The "Found Photography" Fad

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 to rebel against society’s standards and conventions of art? Do they want to mock CD […]

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Interview: Graphic Designer Dan Mumford

I saw some of his works online and I told myself I have to interview this guy! I simply must! At such a young age, he has already found and established his own style(scroll down to the bottom of the page to check his works).When you see his works, you see something common in all […]