Comments on: Ghost Box http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/ Reaching for the sublime in music design (album covers, cd art, record design) Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:06:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-34590 Colin Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:47:59 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-34590 Hello Gavin, I think the vinyl editions are better produced, but, yes, they should have gone the Mo'Wax route of Japanese-style miniature card CD sleeves from the beginning. Hello Gavin, I think the vinyl editions are better produced, but, yes, they should have gone the Mo’Wax route of Japanese-style miniature card CD sleeves from the beginning.

]]> By: Gavin http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-34584 Gavin Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:55:47 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-34584 I agree about the CD packaging. Without a spine, they look incomplete and they are difficult to scan visually because there is no title on the spine. Yet, they take up more space than a cardboard sleeve because of a jewel case that really isn't being used. The laminate on the cover is somehow bubbling on one of my Ghost Box CDs. The paint job on the disc face doesn't look professional either, but rather it's overly thick. I've seen the "home made on the cheap as art" approach work before in design, but that's rarely the case. It fails here and looks shoddy. That's too bad because the music on my Advisory Circle CDs is of excellent quality and deserves better. I agree about the CD packaging. Without a spine, they look incomplete and they are difficult to scan visually because there is no title on the spine. Yet, they take up more space than a cardboard sleeve because of a jewel case that really isn’t being used. The laminate on the cover is somehow bubbling on one of my Ghost Box CDs. The paint job on the disc face doesn’t look professional either, but rather it’s overly thick. I’ve seen the “home made on the cheap as art” approach work before in design, but that’s rarely the case. It fails here and looks shoddy. That’s too bad because the music on my Advisory Circle CDs is of excellent quality and deserves better.

]]> By: dwef http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-23462 dwef Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:06:19 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-23462 Has the new CD Version of the new Belbury pole the same lame Packaging as the ones above? Has the new CD Version of the new Belbury pole the same lame Packaging as the ones above?

]]> By: japanese forms http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-23019 japanese forms Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:03:23 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-23019 OK, Colin Cool. You're a man of taste. OK, Colin

Cool.

You’re a man of taste.

]]> By: Colin http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-22743 Colin Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:03:35 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-22743 Hello there, I covered <a href="http://www.hardformat.org/4285/the-advisory-circle/" rel="nofollow">Mind How You Go</a> back in March. I was referring to the vinyl reissue of <a href="http://ghostbox.greedbag.com/buy/farmers-angle-revised-edition-0/" rel="nofollow">Farmer's Angle</a>. Hello there, I covered Mind How You Go back in March. I was referring to the vinyl reissue of Farmer’s Angle.

]]> By: japanese forms http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-22722 japanese forms Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:33:52 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-22722 hey, colin their "first release on vinyl" came out a few months back. http://www.flickr.com/photos/japaneseforms/4931361771/ there's another one (belbury poly farmer's angle revised edition on 10") coming out on September 10th. http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/products/product_farmersangle_reved.htm cheers, japanese forms hey, colin

their “first release on vinyl” came out a few months back.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/japaneseforms/4931361771/

there’s another one (belbury poly farmer’s angle revised edition on 10″) coming out on September 10th.

http://www.ghostbox.co.uk/products/product_farmersangle_reved.htm

cheers,
japanese forms

]]> By: Colin http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-22714 Colin Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:53:15 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-22714 I believe they're intending to. They're just about to reissue their first release on vinyl. I believe they’re intending to. They’re just about to reissue their first release on vinyl.

]]> By: japanese forms http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-22667 japanese forms Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:10:03 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-22667 i just checked out this page... I wholly agree on what you have to say about the CD packaging... Thankfully Ghost Box has finally gotten round to releasing vinyl (Study Series singles and their first 3" CDs)... I hope they'll be releasing mor of their back catalogue in this format... Gutterbreakz is so right. http://one2zero.blogspot.com/2010/08/ghost-box-study-series-singles-01-02.html cheers, japanese forms i just checked out this page…
I wholly agree on what you have to say about the CD packaging…
Thankfully Ghost Box has finally gotten round to releasing vinyl (Study Series singles and their first 3″ CDs)… I hope they’ll be releasing mor of their back catalogue in this format… Gutterbreakz is so right.

http://one2zero.blogspot.com/2010/08/ghost-box-study-series-singles-01-02.html

cheers,
japanese forms

]]> By: Hardformat » Data 70 - Space Loops, Volume One and Two http://www.hardformat.org/33/ghost-box/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Hardformat » Data 70 - Space Loops, Volume One and Two Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:22:17 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=33#comment-195 [...] Gutterbreakz blog. Delicious retro 7″ styling (5 tracks per side!), not a million miles from Ghost Box, but more unassumingly [...] [...] Gutterbreakz blog. Delicious retro 7″ styling (5 tracks per side!), not a million miles from Ghost Box, but more unassumingly [...]

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