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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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

This is my first in a series of CD Cover Showdowns—a showcase of 50 sleeves from the past few decades, that use a particular word or phase in their album title. We as a race love to be free—and it is this notion that has transcended into music. So, this post is aptly named the Top [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]