Flickr is my favorite place to research images for blog posts, and for my own personal pictures too. I also come across lots of inspiring designs and brilliant home-made and unique packages as well. I decided to create a group collecting some of the best ones I’ve seen in the flickr community and to share [...]
Publish fan testimonials from Twitter with Tweet-stimonials
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Marketing
Testimonial is a powerful marketing tool, and Twitter is a great medium for that. Tweet-stimonials is a neat little plugin that posts tweets about your band, film or company directly to your wordpress blog. Here are the simple steps: 1. Go to Twitter and favorite tweets that you want to show on your website 2. [...]
Retail DVDs on eco-friendly style packaging
June 25th, 2010 · No Comments · CD DVD packaging
While movies and films are traditionally manufactured in Amaray-style case, lately there have been more filmmakers that are doing things a little bit differently. Tall wallet has been a popular choice for a few reasons: – elongated shape is similar to Amaray case – DVD in tall wallet weighs 60% less than DVD in amaray [...]
Awesome wall calendars as marketing tool
June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Marketing
When you think of calendars do you think of good old desktop or wall calendars? The ones that are featured here are so unique that you will keep them all year long, when it’s done you may still keep them around because they look like a piece of art. A smart way to keep your [...]
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Types of artwork proofs for CD/DVD
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Printing/Design
The artwork for your CD/DVD project, like headlines in a newspaper, is the first thing that attracts customers to buy. In order to make sure the image and color is everything that you want it to be, the following types of proofs are available in the printing process: 1. Soft proof / PDF proof This [...]
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Track your music impact online
June 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Marketing
The internet gives you a whole new arena to promote your music through social networking, blogs, newsletters, forums, what’s next? It’s important to track the progress, continuously refine the process to improve, through the following strategic steps: 1. Track your stats 2. Google yourself 3. Set up a Twitter search 4. Set up Google alerts [...]
Pump up the volume with fluorescent PMS
June 14th, 2010 · No Comments · CD DVD packaging
How can you speak LOUD with artwork? Try fluorescent PMS. The artwork here is created entirely of fluorescent PMS, with glossy UV coating. The fluorescent colors were printed with spot ink, resulting in vivid, consistent colors throughout. The glossy UV coating adds more ‘punch’ to the overall color. The inside spines were printed with as [...]
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How to spot different blacks in artwork
June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Printing/Design
There are many many different shades of black, such as plain black and rich black; and often it is difficult to tell the difference on the screen. So if you are putting CD/DVD artwork together that incorporates images with black background, here’s a quick trick to make sure that the black is uniform throughout. Open [...]
Uncoated (reverse) print digipak with a touch of foil
June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Printing/Design
We had mentioned before in a previous article about how to spice up your packaging that a little bit of foil goes a long way. Here we have a couple examples of how foil can create strong contrasts against uncoated (reverse) cardboard digipaks.
Custom soccer player USB drives
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · CD DVD packaging
FIFA World Cup 2010 is coming around in about 2 weeks, and if you are looking for a unique way to produce a USB drive, check out the following designs using Lego-style soccer players. It is available with various uniforms, and other sports.
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