My favorite album packaging. Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s F# A# Infinity vinyl release includes a train flattened penny and a handful of inserts. Also no tracknames are anywhere on the packaging. Instead they are scratched into the pressing info on the record.
Recently I printed some posters and shirts for Philly Hardcore band, Halo of Snakes. Its a one screen print with the date rubber stamped.
From 2000 to 2006, I ran a website titled Antisound. It started out as a project to learn web design. Then it turned into a full fledged music web zine. It was made all the better when I learned record labels would give you free albums just as long as you promised to write a review.
The design was all done in Dreamweaver. Each review was made using templates, this was before I discovered php and cms. It sounds like a nightmare looking back on it.
It came to a point when I was redesigning the site more often than updating the content. It has since fallen in the abyss of Geocities. All my poorly written, un-spell-checked reviews will never been read again.
This is just what I found on deviantART. Hopefully I have more on some disk buried in my closet.
When it comes to making a decision on purchasing something, I usually pick the item with the better packaging. I choose my football teams the same way. I love the Cincinnati Bengals uniforms.
The stripes on the helmet really set them apart from the other NFL teams, who just have their logo on either side. And I love how many alternates they are able to have.
I have countless folders on my desktop of things I grabbed off the internets. I don’t recall where most of it came from. Mostly ffffound.com. Everyday that I’m not a member on that site, I die a little bit inside.
Anyways, here is some cool shit that I have on my computer.
I hate when one of my favorite artists has bad design for their albums. Or when awful bands have amazing packaging.
In this case, one of my favorite rappers, POS, has one of my favorite album packages. The sleeves slide in and out of the clear case to create hundreds of variations. Even the disk interacts with the case.
I’d love to see more of this. Perhaps with vinyl records. Or you could get limited edition sleeves at shows or for preorders. Making the combinations even greater.
