{"id":7057,"date":"2011-03-22T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:23:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:23:01","slug":"cd-packaging-week-freeway-stimulus-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/cd-packaging-week-freeway-stimulus-package\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Packaging of the Week: Freeway- Stimulus Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t you be jumping with joy if you see a stack of dollar bills lying on your doorstep? I would. But then, after 2 seconds you realize it\u2019s fake. How would you feel? Bummed? Pissed? \u00a0You examine it closer and realize it\u2019s the Freeway CD you purchased the other day. Now your face lights up again.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-f-530x397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7059\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" title=\"freeway-jakeone-packaging\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-f-530x397-520x389.jpg\" alt=\"cd-packaging-freeway-jakeone\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-b-530x397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7060\" title=\"freeway-jakeone-packaging-back\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-b-530x397-520x389.jpg\" alt=\"cd-packaging-freeway-jakeone-back\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-dlr-530x331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7063\" title=\"freeway-jakeone-dollar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-dlr-530x331-520x324.jpg\" alt=\"cd-packaging-freeway-jakeone-dollar\" width=\"520\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening the packaging of Freeway\u2019s Stimulus Package is as enjoyable as listening to their music. The liner notes are huge dollar bills in a bank sleeve wrapped around the packaging like a big stack of money. After removing the sleeve and the bills you see the CD is inside a cardboard wallet, complete with a download credit card for the instrumental versions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-wallet-530x331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7064\" title=\"freeway-jakeone-wallet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-wallet-530x331-520x324.jpg\" alt=\"cd-packaging-freeway-jakeone-wallet\" width=\"520\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-wallet2-530x397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7065\" title=\"freeway-jakeone-wallet-close-up\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-wallet2-530x397-520x389.jpg\" alt=\"cd-packaging-freeway-jakeone-wallet-close-up\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-card1-530x397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7066\" title=\"freeway-jakeone-card\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/freeway-jakeone-card1-530x397-520x389.jpg\" alt=\"cd-packaging-freeway-jakeone-card\" width=\"520\" height=\"389\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although this is not my kind of packaging (I prefer simpler ones), I still admire it for its efforts to become quirky and memorable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeway_(rapper)\">Freeway<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Album:<\/strong> Stimulus Package<\/p>\n<p><strong>Design:<a title=\"Brent Rollins Design Explosion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brentrollins.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Brent Rollins Design Explosion<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year: <\/strong>2010<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is 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 FREE SHIPPING, simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/instant-quote\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wouldn\u2019t you be jumping with joy if you see a stack of dollar bills lying on your doorstep? I would. But then, after 2 seconds you realize it\u2019s fake. How would you feel? Bummed? Pissed? \u00a0You examine it closer and realize it\u2019s the Freeway CD you purchased the other day. Now your face lights up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,25,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd-duplication-packaging","category-cd-manufacturing","category-graphic-design","category-packaging-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29885,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions\/29885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}