13 Places to Look for Packaging Design Inspiration
Packaging blogs. If you’re trying to come up with a CD packaging design, you’d likely want to view Packaging blogs…ya know, just to get some inspiration. Some say there’s a problem with this approach, though, especially if you’re looking for designs with the same medium (i.e. CD packaging designs to get inspiration for your CD […]
18 Weird But Cute Wedding Invites
Your wedding invitations shouldn’t be boring unless you accept that you and your soon-to-be hubby are, in fact, two boring people. Forget scented stationery! There are so many ways to customize your wedding invite- from having a custom wedding USB drive to wedding vinyl records to wedding balloons! Come up with a wedding invitation that […]
Basic Merch Marketing Strategies for Indie Musicians
Music feeds the soul; merch feeds the body. How cheesy but that is very true, my friend. You know that! If you’re a musician, you need to sell band merchandise in order to survive. And in order to sell, you have to know how to market your merch. Here are some strategies that could help […]
Use CD Replication for Professional Results
Are you a musician? Do you write software that you hope to market? If so, then you need to get examples of your work out to potential fans and customers. This might mean that you need to produce sample CDs on your own. You will either need to have those discs mastered or burned. However, […]
Is CD Duplication or Replication Best for You?
What is the difference between CD duplication and replication? Which option is best for your project? In order to make your decision, make sure that you truly understand the pros and cons of each method. Duplication refers to the process of burning material onto a blank CD. (Burning is how information is recorded onto the […]
Music Marketing: What Big Musicians Can Do that Newbies Can’t… Yet
They say that in order to be a winner, you have to do what winners do. But I don’t think this applies to music marketing.If you don’t want to be laughed at, take it easy baby and don’t do the following: BAND LOGO ON SHIRTS. If you’re not yet as big as KISS or Rolling […]
CD Packaging Disasters & How to Avoid Them
We want our album to have zero issues from recording to manufacturing. But, sh*t could happen any time. You could screw up your CD packaging by simply having your instead of you’re or choosing a low res image. Here are some of the more common sh*t that could happen to a CD artwork or insert. […]
Album Artwork: Why you shouldn’t let your friend design it for free.
If it’s your first time to make an album, and especially if you’re an indie musician, you want to cut costs as much as possible. And so you think of ways to get free services and think of professional friends who can possibly help you without anything in return because hey, that’s what friends do- […]
More Awesome USB Albums
USB flash drive gives fans the impression that you’re innovative and that you’re willing to try new things to make them happy.
Here are some more awesome USB albums…
Creative Vinyl Packaging: Satellites- 01
We’ve featured plenty of creative vinyl packaging over the years and this CD/Vinyl packaging definitely has one of the sleekest designs . Here is the 10-inch casebound hard cover gatefold double vinyl edition of Satellites‘ album entitled 01. It contains two die-cut silver sleeves that looks like real giant metal diskette from afar. Each sleeve […]