http://www.hardformat.org/4640/ghostwriter/ 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 http://www.hardformat.org/4640/ghostwriter/comment-page-1/#comment-20712 richard aka bleedthefield Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:37:59 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=4640#comment-20712 i ordered direct from the label,having come across the album in "record collector" magazine,its innovative but non expensive use of outer and inner packing materials is a real wonder and object of fascination.thankfully the music is also of the highest quality too. quite how many have been made i do not know,but i suspect a future true collectable of the highest order is now in my ownership. but the greater lesson here is how such an object can be made without the massive production costs(apart from human folding time costs !)incurred by the major labels,who quite often, produce disposable content of both packing and music ! in this age of non physical d/l music it is a pleasure to find labels who appreciate more traditional values. also try bass communion,s "loss" - original vinyl with photo booklet and scented paperwork sleeves.again quite astonishing. i ordered direct from the label,having come across the album in “record collector” magazine,its innovative but non expensive use of outer and inner packing materials is a real wonder and object of fascination.thankfully the music is also of the highest quality too.
quite how many have been made i do not know,but i suspect a future true collectable of the highest order is now in my ownership.
but the greater lesson here is how such an object can be made without the massive production costs(apart from human folding time costs !)incurred by the major labels,who quite often, produce disposable content of both packing and music !
in this age of non physical d/l music it is a pleasure to find labels who appreciate more traditional values.
also try bass communion,s “loss” – original vinyl with photo booklet and scented paperwork sleeves.again quite astonishing.

]]> http://www.hardformat.org/4640/ghostwriter/comment-page-1/#comment-20189 Matt Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:45:04 +0000 http://www.hardformat.org/?p=4640#comment-20189 I know what you mean about opening the package - it took me hours of handling the wrapped-in-newspaper thing before I could actually bring myself to tear into it - but that was just part of the joy of it, ultimately, having to partially destroy it in order to more fully appreciate it (and I'm an archaeologist, so I do that sort of thing for a living...). I know what you mean about opening the package – it took me hours of handling the wrapped-in-newspaper thing before I could actually bring myself to tear into it – but that was just part of the joy of it, ultimately, having to partially destroy it in order to more fully appreciate it (and I’m an archaeologist, so I do that sort of thing for a living…).

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