5 Tips For Making Movie Posters
Although a movie poster can be a creative playground, you still need to know the basics in creating one especially if you are planning to impress your professor (or first client) and you have a deadline to beat. Here are some tips in making movie poster. Understand the core of the film Thinking of a […]
Vinyl Record Packaging: Run Hide Survive- Show Off
A 12- Layer screenprint which was included as part of the first Showoff 12″ vinyl record pressing in LA release by Sheffield based production duo RUN HIDE SURVIVE. The 12″ record sleeve is plain white with a central hole that reveals a of colorful spectrum of colors. Pull out the enclosed record to see the […]
Wedding Invitation that Turns Into Paper Record Player
A wedding invitation that plays a record? I bet you haven’t received an invitation as cool as this! Except, of course, if you are one of the 150 guests of Karen Sandler and Mike Tarantino who received this awesome wedding invitation. Designer Kelli Anderson wanted to create something original for the wedding of her friends […]
Die Cutting, Scoring, and Folding
Custom CD/DVD boxes, gatefold cases, invitation cards, and almost all custom packaging boxes require professional die-cutting, scoring, and folding. These are finishing techniques that require much care and attention if you want your custom pieces to look good. With proper planning and execution, these techniques add a quality look and feel to the finished piece. […]
DVD Packaging: TMNT’s Pizza Box Set
Craving for some hot, oven-fresh kung-fu action? Here’s a truly delectable Lionsgate’s special delivery DVD box set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 5. It features a Pizza Box packaging with 3 discs containing all 18 episodes from the 5th season starring Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello. Yum! TMNT signifies a very important decade and […]
Music is dying. Music is Thriving. Which is it?
Music is dying if you believe the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). Music is a growing business if you believe Apple, Google, Spotify, Yahoo Music, Artist Direct, My Space Music, Pandora and hundreds of other options. They’re right – all of them. The ‘good ol days’ are gone. Everything lives in phases – music […]
Graphic Designers: Get to Know Custom Packaging Materials
If you want to become a CD packaging designer, then it is very important that you know how materials work. Designing custom CD packages require not only brilliant concepts and good software skills-you need be an expert on the materials, too. It is not like printing posters or printing CD covers using templates. In designing […]
Typographic Movie Posters that Pack a Punch
A poster should be imaginative and witty or else it’s just another piece of marketing trash. It should get people’s attention the second they see it. And the image and message of the poster should retain in their heads for at least 5 minutes after that. Designers do this by making really brilliant designs. They brainstorm […]
10 Great Music Marketing Ideas
Here are 10 music marketing ideas from the Music 3.0 Internet Music guidebook. It’s easier to sell your music if you add extra value to it, so it helps to think outside the box when it comes to distributing your music. Thanks to Bruce Houghton of the great music blog Hypebot for numbers 7 through 10. 1) Develop a package […]
Merch Concepts: Bowling Pins Art
If you’re trying to come up with the coolest custom band merch for your movie and your movie has interesting characters, why don’t you make something like this! Coolest. Custom Merch. Ever. These are bowling pins meticulously painted and glued with fur, hair, and accessories to resemble the important and interesting characters in the movie […]