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Elements of a kick-ass CD packaging

It Serves its Primary Purpose Before you try to make your CD packaging interesting, make sure it keeps the discs safe from liquids, dust, and pressure. This means, the case should be sturdy and easy-to-open, among other things. Also make sure that the CDs won’t fall off once the CD packaging is opened. There are […]

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CD Packaging: Where Did The Night Fall- UNKLE

A CD packaging so sleek with a metallic touch, that’s what this CD package of Unkle’s “Where Did the Night Fall” is all about. Artist: UNKLE Label: Surrender All Album: Where Did the Night Fall Package Design: James Lavelle, Ben Drury and Warren Du Preez, Nick Thornton Jones Release: 2010 We here at Unified are obsessed with beautiful CD packaging. […]

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Why it still makes sense to make CDs

The CD is dead. We keep hearing it every day since 2001 but here we are, 12 years later, still alive and making hundreds of thousands of CDs each year. Many things changed because of the internet but one thing never changes: fans still want to take home the physical format. The mp3 is too […]

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Die Cut CD Packaging: Someday- Erik Brandt

We love this custom Die Cut CD Packaging – simple and very soothing to the eyes. Just staring at it can remove a bit of stress from your day. The artwork has a blue blotch that looks like a little kid accidentally placed a wet painting or something. Everything else looks clean and simple. That’s […]

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ECO: How to Recycle Paper for your DIY CD Sleeves

To make paper, there are three steps that T’sai Lun, huge papermaking machines and modern handpaper-makers alike follow.  They are: preparing the material from which you will make paper, forming the sheet and drying the sheet. What You Need deckle – a frame without a screen  mould- frame with screen  laundry starch used paper – […]

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CD Packaging: Forrest Day

We here at Unified are obsessed with beautiful CD packaging. We’ve been making creative releases since 2008 and lovely packaging has become an obsession of ours. We even have a Pinterest page dedicated to all things media packaging. If you want to make a really badass album with cool CD packaging, get a quote or shoot us an […]