CD Packaging: 10 Optical Illusion CD Covers
Animal Collective: ‘ Merriweather Post Pavilion’ (2008) No, it is not moving and yes your eyes are still fine. This is the cover image of Merriweather Post Pavilion, the 8th studio album of Animal Collective. The much-anticipated and now celebrated album boast trippy cover art inspired by the work of Japanese psychologist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. Soulwax: […]
CD Duplication: 6 Ways to Cut-Down CD Duplication Expenses
As an indie artist, you try as much as possible to cut-down or eliminate your expenses in whatever way you can even when it comes to CD duplication. You do not want to shell out a lot of money with your album only to sell 50 copies. Yes, you love your music but you have […]
The CD Manufacturing Process
Not many musicians and music industry people are familiar with the CD manufacturing process. Why would they bother, right? They’d rather practice their music or get some rest than get geeky with trying to find out about the whole process of producing CDs. Besides, they are artists and not technicians. Yes that’s true. But it […]
Music Packaging: Bloody Album Covers
The artwork on the CD packaging is meant to get our attention and what better way to do that than to put images with blood and gore. Here are some of the most captivating bloody album covers. Check them out and tell me which one you like best. Enjoy! The Beatles– Yesterday and Today Yes, […]
CD Packaging: Dos & Don’ts of Designing CD Covers
So you have spent plenty of nights wracking your brains out for the most awesome CD packaging ever created in history. Poor you! But I am sure that it would all be worth it once you see people’s “wow, cool!” expressions when they see your CD packaging. You realized just how important CD packaging is […]
Compact Disc: History of the CD
What is a CD? A CD is a short term for compact disc and was originally invented to store digital sound recordings exclusively. Later, it was also used to store other types of digital data like images, documents, and the like. Until today, it remains the industry’s standard for storing and preserving audio. The CD […]
CD Packaging: Effortless Face Portraits
Most of us wrack our brains out just to come up with a catchy design for our CD packaging but I do not think these guys are like most of us. Check out these effortless CD covers that really kick ass. Vampire Weekend- Contra Look at that. It’s just like an old polaroid photo from […]
CD Packaging: The Making of Katy Perry’s Cotton Candy Scented Packaging
Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dreams” CD packaging smells like cotton candy! Check out this behind-the-scenes video to find out exactly how the cotton candy scented packaging was produced from start to finish. Follow her first to visual artist, Will Cotton’s NYC studio, where he shoots the photos for the album insert and then paints the album […]
CD Packaging of the Week: Elyjah’s Planet Planet
Client | Elyjah Artwork | Zwölf : www.zwoelf.net Production | Kieran Joel Styling | Leena Zimmermann German designers Zwölf fired pellets into the CD covers of Elyjah’s latest album, Planet, Planet(Klimbim Records/Cargo). These guys surely had a lot of fun shooting all 2,000 covers and receiving 2 prestigious awards afterward. This CD packaging won Gold at the European Design Award […]
CD Packaging: Brian Eno’s “Small Craft On A Milk Sea” Box Set
Brian Eno has a new album called “Small Craft on a Milk Sea” which will be released on November 2. When you check their site, it’s interesting (but not a surprise) that it tells more about the creative packaging than the actual music. Fans of Eno’s art will appreciate the evocative artworks by Eno himself, […]