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Top 50 ‘Free’ CD Covers Showdown 2008-03-05 15:00:04 This is my first in a series of CD Cover Showdown
s—a showcase of 50 sleeves from the past few decades, that use a particular word or phase in their album title. Why? Because I think it is interesting to contrast the varied styles and approaches to these designs for any given word—and take a look [...] Read more:Covers
Get Cape Wear Young Knives Fly? 2008-03-02 18:14:08 Yeah, this is a rather mixed-up title for a kind of strange review…well, more like an album art face-off. The image below shows the new Get Cape Wear Cape Fly CD Cover for Searching for the Hows and Whys.
Hmmm, weird, yes—but I’ve seen something similar before. The album Voices of Animals and Men by The [...] Read more:Knives
There’s No Feeling for the Cub Scouts’ Album Art 2008-02-21 16:21:15 I looked on the iTunes Store today, and noticed a couple of new album covers with two distinct, poler opposite approaches to their album art.
Firstly, I saw the sleeve for I want you to know that there is always hope by I Was A Cub Scout (below), and remembered thinking how unimaginative and boring it [...] Read more:Feeling
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Undiscovered Album Art for “It Hurts” CD 2008-02-18 15:41:45 This is the latest album art I have done for a band named Undiscovered, an Idie/Rock band from Northern England. The image below shows the four pages of the CD Booklet:
The music for this album is based around love and hurt. They approached me with a basic idea of what they wanted—with the ‘upside-down’ heart [...] Read more:Album
R.E.M: Supernatural Superserious Sleevealicious? 2008-02-12 17:05:13 R.E.M’s new single, Supernatural
Superserious, is taken from their 14th studio album, Accelerate—which incidentally has great album art. However, the sleeve for the first single to be plucked from the album is rather uninspiring (see below).
Firstly, I don’t know what it actually is - apart from the typography, obviously. Secondly, with the Accelerate being so [...]
Hot Chip’s Music may be Made In The Dark—But was the album artwork? 2008-02-05 16:54:57 I’m used to hearing a new Hot Chip
track—and then at some point discovering the album artwork which represents it. These CD covers, such as Hot Chip’s The Warning, Colours and Over and Over are both bright and colorful. These covers are what I’m used to seeing—and what I imagine their work would look like [...] Read more:Music
Why Album Artwork no longer has Backbone! 2008-02-04 14:24:59 I can remember the last couple of albums that I designed, where one place where accuracy is paramount is placing text and logos in the CD spine.
You literally have less than 1cm to squeeze all the elements into this thin strip of CD ‘real estate’—the dreaded spine of the album’s artwork. As any good designer [...] Read more:Album
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Adele—Like 19 Album Covers I’ve seen this week 2008-01-29 14:56:45 This is going to be one of my shorter posts—well, more of a rant really. Every time I look on the front page of iTunes lately, I see a photo-shot of Adele
, and now, her new album artwork for 19.
I’m not a fan of her music, but I reckon the Home Town single is quite [...] Read more:Covers
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CD Sleeves to be replaced by iTunes Album Artwork? 2008-01-27 17:20:14 As a graphic designer for CD Sleeves, I’m very interested in the latest development in this apparently new ‘iTunes
naming convention’ - AlbumArtwork
. Obviously, as time progresses, and now in 2008, 80% of all albums are downloaded through online retailers, so are no longer physical ‘CDs’.
Back in the day, a collection of music was [...]
The Future of iTunes: Album Artwork Banned by Steve Jobs! 2008-01-24 17:11:17 I few months ago, I wrote a post about how Brit-band Hard-Fi were opposed to AlbumArtwork
on their new release. If this wasn’t enough, I recently heard that at least one band is now doing a similar thing (I can’t seem to find out how, if you have any information, please leave a comment). [...] Read more:iTunes
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itunes Free Download 2008-03-11 19:11:56 I’ve discovered recently that not everyone knows about the itunes free download. Yep, it costs nothing. The most useful music program, available for Mac and PC is available to download online at Apple!
I use it on a daily basis and would recommend it to anyone, seriously. For me, apart from [obviously] listening to my music, [...] Read more:Download
That Guillemots CD is Red, so Get Over It! 2008-03-25 12:21:55 The Guillemots are hardly a famed-bunch for fantastic album artwork—take a look at Through the Windowpane for example, but when I saw the design for the single Get Over It (below), I simply gasped. Why? Because, after hearing the track (and incidentaly liking it) I pondered the reason why the CD design was simply a [...]
How to get album artwork for your MP3’s in iTunes 2008-03-31 17:21:38 If you’re using iTunes
to manage your MP3 Music Collection, there’s nothing more irritating than having the tracks without album artwork. When you view your music in Cover Flow View, all you’ll get is an array of blank-looking jewel case simulations with a musical-note symbol in the center (see image below, Right).
To get around this, [...]
Death of the CD Cover Design 2008-04-15 13:56:07 Well, I’ve been writing this CD-related blog now since January 2007, and seen a steady stream of traffic and some interest. The truth is, I’m always either designing stuff and working on other ventures, so I think I’ll be posting here with less regularity.
I’m still very interested in Music CD’s and their designs in general [...] Read more:Cover
Am I a CD Designer? Yeah! 2008-07-15 10:53:41 Hi just to let you know, I’m still a CD designer, but I’m working on a new site of mine, AndrewKelsall.com. This maybe the shortest post ever, but at least you know
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