CD PACKAGING: KATY PERRY’S PRISM SEED PACKETS
This Katy Perry CD packaging can actually be good for the environment. The idea was to plant flower seeds in your garden while listening to Katy’s Prism album. For deluxe editions of her 2013 album, Prism, Katy Perry included packets of flower seeds in A prism seed paper. How cool is this idea? It’s as […]
How Not to Be a Boring Musician When You’re Onstage
As a musician, you’d be thinking…we’re here to play music, not make people like us or worse, make people laugh. However, if you’re doing a concert, you are officially an entertainer. People go to you not just for music, but the whole package. Anything to make them smile or laugh is a big bonus. Here […]
Creative Bags to Package Your T-shirt Merch
There are many ways to package your custom t-shirt merch but if you’re selling tees, might as well put them in creative bags. Not only will your customers find it useful, you’ll be able to spread your brand. Plus, they’ll certainly feel that they’re getting more bang from their buck. Here are some creative bags […]
Five of the Most Elaborate Music Releases Ever
Today, when everything is downloadable, you have to be creative with your music release to get people to dig in their pockets and give you cash. You can release in a kick-ass CD packaging, custom USB sticks, or vinyl pressing in Los Angeles. Here are some of the most elaborate music releases of all time. […]
9 Tips for designing band T-shirts
Let the designers do the designing…and no one else! So you don’t want to pay a designer because you think you can do it? Nothing too hard about it, right? Just sketch a cool thing that would possibly look awesome on a tee and print it with your band name. That’s it! No need to […]
Direct printing on clear CD jewel cases
Here’s proof that minimalist designs are the classiest. The typography and graphics of these CD packaging were screen printed right on the surface of the jewel case. As you can see from these examples, you don’t need to go crazy with your artwork to get attention. Subtlety works. Aphex Twin’s Syro Full Album Art and […]
Why musician today need gimmicks when releasing an album
We’ve featured some of the craziest album release gimmicks from attaching USB albums to balloons to releasing a newspaper. There was one Flaming Lips album where they added Kesha’s blood in the vinyl record. If you’re a new musician who’s about to launch your first album, you might be thinking “Are gimmicks absolutely necessary because […]
5 Cardboard CD cases that are actually cheap to make
Making a really good-looking CD packaging shouldn’t be too costly if you choose the right cardboard CD cases and come up with an excellent CD design. If you make 300 or more of these cardboard CD packaging, they can be so dirt cheap you wouldn’t ever consider choosing anything else. If you can’t imagine cardboard […]
15 Albums That Creatively Use Clear CD Cases
So…maybe everyone’s releasing their albums in cool Flash Drives or Dropcards. If they release in CD format at all, they’d most likely be housed in sleek Digipaks and Custom Boxes. There’s no way jewel cases can be cool in 2013, right? Wrong! Want proof? Well just check out these totally hip CD packaging using clear […]
6 Reasons Photographers Love Wedding USB Flash Drives
Are you a photographer and you want an article to convince you that it’s time to do the switch from DVDs to wedding USB flash drives? Well, this is it. As you may know, we do DVD duplication as well so we’re not just advocating that you do the switch for us to gain more […]