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Vinyl Packaging

20 Unconventional Ways to Release Your Music

flaming lips blood release

ShareWho says you should just make CDs and digital downloads like the rest of the regular guys? There are so many ways to get creative with releasing, distributing and marketing your music. Here are some of them: Put some weird ingredient on your Package–like Ke$ha’s blood Flaming Lips released their new record “The Flaming Lips [...]

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29 May 2013

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

What is the difference between AQ Finish compared to others?

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ShareWhen you ask most printing companies for the best finish, more often than not, they’d tell you it’s AQ finish. What the heck is AQ and why is it such a popular choice of most printing houses? AQ finish or Aqueous Finish  is a vegetable cellulose coating which is applied to paper right after the inks. It produces [...]

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16 March 2013

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Album Launch Publicity Gimmicks of Famous Artists

ShareLast week, we featured a band who launched their single by putting it in USB sticks, tying them to helium balloons, and setting them free. Someone from Twitter pointed out that the concept is not original, that it has been done by Jack White months back- but with flexi-discs. So I Googled it and yes, it’s true. [...]

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13 February 2013

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

10 Must-Bring Merch for Your Band Tour

ShareIf you have a band and it’s your first time to go on tour, first of all…congratulations! Now chop chop and make sure you have these merch ready for your tour: 1. CDs, of course! They say CD is dead but they’re still making lots of CDs. Think of one professional musician who hasn’t released [...]

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17 January 2013

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

13 Places to Look for Packaging Design Inspiration

Share 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 [...]

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12 November 2012

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

18 Weird But Cute Wedding Invites

ShareYour 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 [...]

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7 November 2012

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Badass Bands and their Pink Vinyl Records

ShareIf you’re a metal/punk/rock band, you’re likely “locked” in the colors black, red and white for your website, merch, CD packaging, and uhmmm… everything else. That’s the stereotype. But if you want to become more badass than you already are, try something totally unexpected. Why don’t you try a girly color like pink! Apparently, this [...]

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10 October 2012

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

Print Options for Cardboard Packaging ( Digipaks, CD Wallets, Jackets)

ShareSTOCK Glossy Choose a gloss coated stock if your packaging is heavy on photographs for its design because the photos appear sharper and more vibrant. However, this is not the best paper if your project is text-heavy. The light that bounces back from the glossy material will make the copy difficult to read. Matte The [...]

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28 August 2012

Marion Isobel Marion Isobel

ECO: How to Recycle Paper for your DIY CD Sleeves

Share To make paper, there are three steps that T’sai Lun, huge papermaking machines and modern handpaper-makers alike follow.  They are: preparing the material from which you will make paper, forming the sheet and drying the sheet. What You Need deckle – a frame without a screen  mould- frame with screen  laundry starch used paper [...]

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6 July 2012

Chris Bauer Chris Bauer

White Vinyl Records. Gotta love them!

ShareI love white- white chocolate, white clouds, white polo shirt, white choco mocha, white carpets (as long as it’s not mine and I’m not responsible if it gets dirty). White just looks so clean, fresh and… milky. Stalked Erik Peterson on Pinterest again and checked his vinyl pinboard. And yes, it has plenty of white vinyl [...]

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26 June 2012

james James Hill

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