Beautiful vinyl packaging for a set of beautiful songs to accompany your summertime blues while you’re all soaked in a warm bath. Each song gives you the feeling that yes, life is not always good but, in the grand scheme of things, it’s still beautiful. The packaging is a retro collage that reminds me of […]
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Vinyl Packaging: Warp 10-year Anniversary Vinyl
Design: Carosello Lab Project Type: Produced Client: Dim Mak (Steve Aoki & The Bloody Beetroots) Location: Milan, Italy Packaging Contents: Vinyl Packaging Substrate / Materials: paper Printing Process: Offset, blind embossing, cold foil A physical and digital experience designed for a celebrative, limited edition album by DJs Steve Aoki and The Bloody Beetroots. CAROSELLO worked […]
Vinyl Sleeve Artworks That Are So Bad They’re Good
These vinyl sleeve artworks are like B movies…or your first kiss— they’re sloppy, they make you cringe and cry at just how bad they are. What were they thinking, right? But it’s exactly because of their ugliness that they’re impossible to ignore. In fact, you might even get to like some of them. Just check […]
Grammy Nominees for Best Record Package 2019
Be the Cowboy, Mitski The record is on clear red vinyl in an spot-UV gatefold (the letters are hidden), and features an exclusive lyrics and photo book. It has plenty of cool pictures and a mini-essay. ________________________________________________________ Love Yourself: Tear, BTS ________________________________________________________ Masseduction, St. Vincent _________________________________________________________ The Offering, The Chairman Special limited edition packaging designed […]
Music Packaging of the Week: Speerit Origami
Design: Ioannis Fetanis Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work Client: Speerit Location: Athens, Greece Packaging Contents: Music CD Packaging Substrate / Materials: Paper Printing Process: Screen Print Clever, low cost & sustainable CD packaging. A DIN A4 paper that creates an origami packaging, without plastic wrapping. via ________________________________________________ Unified Manufacturing is an L.A. -based one-stop-shop that offers very […]
8 K-pop Albums with the Prettiest CD Packaging
The Koreans are really good at marketing their stuff and we should learn from them. K-pop probably produces the best CD packaging and vinyl record pressing in Los Angeles. Here are some of the cutest K-pop CD packaging: f(x)’s Pink Tape A popular theme for unique albums is to make them look like something else […]
8 Impractical But Totally Pretty Blu-ray Box Sets and Packaging
Sometimes, we just want to throw away money on special edition blu rays just because we can. And just because we really, really love these films and we want to remind ourselves (and our guests) that fact by displaying them in our living room. Why not? It’s our money anyways? To prove just how ridiculously amazing […]
Elaborate Black and White Vinyl Packaging Designs
There are so many creative ways to release your vinyl today. You can have colored vinyl, splattered vinyl, metallic vinyl, vinyl with crazy stuff in them and picture discs. That is why it’s also a good idea to come up with a black and white vinyl. It will not only stand out, it is also […]
8 Design Secrets to Achieve Really Attention- Grabbing Packaging
Designing a media packaging whether it’s a CD/DVD case, USB box, vinyl sleeve, or special box set that contains all of the above and some merch, is equal parts art and science. It has to attract your target market but at the same time, it also has to be able to protect the contents as […]
CD Packaging: Pyramid-shaped CD cases
What we love about the pyramid-shaped CD packaging is that it instantly stands out yet it’s not that expensive to make. Not at all! It’s probably one of the cheapest ways to come up with a creative box set without blowing big bucks. Plus, we assure you that with this type of packaging, your media […]