{"id":5238,"date":"2010-11-05T02:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2024-01-18T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T08:42:16","slug":"cd-packaging-typographic-album-art-creative-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/cd-packaging-typographic-album-art-creative-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Packaging: 12 Brilliant Typographic Album Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are 12 albums that use type (letters) as the album art.<\/p>\n

No glossy portraits, no bling-bling, just letters made into artwork. Brilliant!
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Zipper Catches Skin by Alice Cooper<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

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What you get here is just the lyrics from the album presented in block paragraph form on the cover. There is also the very subtle ALICE COOPER across the top of the album via a light red hue shift. This is one of the few Alice Cooper covers that doesn\u2019t feature the man himself. It\u2019s also one of two albums he doesn\u2019t even remember recording (because he’s too drunk)!<\/p>\n

Classics by <\/strong>Bugged Out!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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You gotta love the simplicity of the ASCII and Dayglo<\/a> paper combo!<\/p>\n

The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place by Explosions in the Sky<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Looks familiar? Yeah, I think they copied this from Alice Cooper. But then again, the texty concept is not so unusual anyway. Nevertheless, still looks more appealing compared to most album covers nowadays.<\/p>\n

Torch Songs by Jonathan Coleclough and Andrew Liles<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The text was written during their performance, brush sounds incorporated into the recordings.<\/p>\n

Production and Decay by Spatial Relations<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Reissue of original vinyl release on CD retains the 12\u2033 format with pouch for CDs. Basic design ethos is attractive in this hybrid approach.<\/p>\n

Go 2 by XTC<\/span>
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XTC\u2019s Go 2<\/a> is designed by Hipgnosis,\u00a0 the UK design group that brought us some of the most original and memorable covers for bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, etc. Hipgnosis\u2019s trademark story like imagery is replaced by copy poking fun at the art form.<\/p>\n

Generic Flipper by Flipper<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Here’s an abum with the same “anti-art” mockery as XTC’s Go 2. How profound, right?<\/p>\n

Once Upon a Time in the West by Hard Fi<\/span>
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and here’s another one. Hard-Fi have been patting themselves on the back for \u201cbreaking the rules\u201d for their 2007 Once Upon A Time in the West release….err, but everybody knows it’s not original. The Times have a better article regarding this found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Come to Daddy by Aphex Twin<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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The Designers Republic used a similar treatment in 1997 for the 2nd print of Aphex Twin\u2019s Come to Daddy. I don’t find this very impressive, though. It’s just too much that it makes my eyes roll.<\/p>\n

Riot by Paramore<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Some People by Rekleiner<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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The most creative typographic vinyl packaging I’ve seen. Go check out the other versions here.<\/p>\n

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James Hill<\/i><\/b>\u00a0is a veteran of the music industry. He first worked at Warner Reprise Records then later joined Interscope\/ Geffen Records where he managed producers and songwriters and got his first platinum record for Keyshia Cole\u2019s The Way It Is. He is now helping indie artists with branding and manufacturing through his company\u00a0<\/i>Unified Manufacturing<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>, a CD\/DVD,\u00a0custom vinyl records<\/a> and merch company in LA.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are 12 albums that use type (letters) as the album art. No glossy portraits, no bling-bling, just letters made into artwork. Brilliant! Zipper Catches Skin by Alice Cooper What you get here is just the lyrics from the album presented in block paragraph form on the cover. There is also the very subtle ALICE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd-manufacturing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38563,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/38563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}