CD Packaging Ideas You Must Try!
CD packaging ideas? Or are you working on tons of album art day in and day out that you’re creative juices are about to run out? I hear you. It’s tough. Working with the same materials and way too similar concepts for ages will eventually leave your brain cells dry. This is not good for […]
CD Packaging: Pat Metheny Group- Imaginary Day
Artist: Pat Metheny Group Album: Imaginary Day Label: Warner Bros Year: 2007 Designer: Sagmeister, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________________ Here’s another highly entertaining album art by the CD cover guru, Stefan Sagmeister. The guy surely has compassion for the bored people like me who are tired of seeing the same old album covers. Thank you, Stefan! This is […]
CD Packaging of the Week: Sigur Ros- ()
Artist: Sigur Rós Album: ( ) Label: FatCat Records Year: 2002 Designer: Alex Torrance , D.C. , Sigur Rós Hardformat ____________________________________________________________________ Unified Manufacturing is an L.A. -based one-stop-shop that offers very affordable CD/DVD/USB replication, custom printing, promotional products, warehousing and fulfillment and many more. If you need an Instant Quote on a project and you want […]
CD Manufacturing: Choosing Colors and Formats- do it right from the start!
The formats and color requirements of the logos and graphics you use on your CD artwork, websites, albums, T-shirts, and posters can vary significantly. As anyone who has tried to do a run of CD covers or has prepared graphic artwork for T-shirts can tell you, you can waste a lot of time adjusting images […]
CD Packaging: Minute Papillon- Second Language
Minute Papillon is Second Language’s latest and most ambitious curatorial exercise yet. It comprises of 60 one-minute-long tracks purveyed by a pan-global retinue of left-of-centre artists. It is packaged in a deluxe, silver foil blocked jewel box with magnifying glass. The text is so small that it’s painful to read without the use of the […]
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 anybody can buy it. Buy some cheap CDs and cases, borrow a decent printer, you’re […]
CD Packaging: Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology
Visual Dialogue referenced the graphics and color palette of original Folkways JAZZ LP covers in creating an entirely new design for Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology. The package combines a 200-page book and 6 CDs inside a translucent slipcase, befitting what Time magazine reviewed as “the single best introduction to America’s great musical form.” Jazz: The […]
Business: Study Reveals Consumers Prefer Direct Mail Use of CDs and DVDs
Discmail Direct and Direct Marketing Association conducted a study in 2010 about consumer’s attitude and response towards direct mail. Using more than 800 respondents, here are the results of the study: 85 % prefer a disc over an email and 59%of the 800+ respondents believe a DVD is more secure than an email. 91% of […]
CD Packaging: Shindig Fantastico- Superhotjoy
Superhotjoy asked Disturbance Design to make the packaging visibly African so they shot them amongst stuffed African wildlife at the local museum. Well, what could be more African than lions, zebras, and dehydrated flora? The hard bound book digipack features four Polaroids of the band. The case has a clean, polished look which complements the […]
Your CD Packaging as a Branding Tool
Are you a rising musician who’s about to release an album? Or are you a business owner who wants to create a compelling product demo? Then you better make the make the most out of your CD packaging! Well, knowing that beauty is subjective, you have to find what most of your target market find […]