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Dissecting a CD for Design Sake: How Parts of a Compact Disc Affect Design - The individual parts of a compact disc provide unique graphic design challenges and opportunities for desktop publishers and designers. In this article we dissect a compact disc and analyze its manufactured anatomy, explaining how the different parts will affect your compact disc design.
Marvin's Corner for CD Design Tips - The material draws primarily on the writers' experience in CD and multimedia package design and prepress, but many or most of the underlying concepts apply easily to desktop print design in general.
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CD and DVD Template Design Tips - Here are some CD and DVD Template Design Tips.
Top 10 DVD Packaging in 2005 - Here is a list of the top 10 DVD packages in 2005...this might give you some good ideas for your designs.
Album Cover Design - Past influences, present struggles, and future predictions.
Printing on Compact Disc - Learn how pictures are printed on a CD and the limitations of this type of design and printing.
DVD Cover Design Tutorial - Lots of times if you can’t find your favorite DVD’s at the store, you choose judging by the cover. Some covers are simple, some are too fancy. With this tutorial you will learn how to make a colorful, full of live design with Adove Photoshop.
How to Design an Album Cover - Patrick Duffy and tips for designing an album cover.
CD packaging design Love 'em and read 'em - This article is for anyone - graphic designer, label manager, musician, lyricist - who has a say in the graphic design and typography of the CD packaging, advertising, or other printed matter.
How to Design a Techno Album Cover - So you’ve tried the cool, funny, original, minimal, abstract, enigmatic, intriguing, techno – what not. If you are still not happy with the looks, try going back to the very origins of electronic music. You have to ask yourself how it all started and what did the pioneers of electronic music have in mind when writing their pieces.
Technical Critiques Of Professional Disc Designs - Here are critiques of CD designs.
CDMan and CD Disk Designing - CD Designing tips and articles.
The Art of the Album Cover - Here is a gallery of past album covers.
CD Design and Album Cover Art - CD Cover design blog that covers CD design issues and resources.
Barcodes/Top Spine Label: UPC Barcodes / Top Spine Label / ISRC Codes - Barcodes are free and anyone can use them, in fact everyone should have a barcode on their release if they are planning to sell it retail, especially on-line services like CDbaby or Amazon.
The Incredible Shrinking Album Cover - Faced with sluggish CD sales, artwork designers are readjusting for a digital world
70s Greatest Album Covers - Revisit the past Album covers from the seventies to get some inspiration for future CD / DVD Covers.
CD Album Cover Graphic Design - Need help designing your artwork? These tutorials may help you out.
Album Cover Designer - What is it? Listening to a band’s music and coming up with cool-looking record sleeves, posters, and merchandise.
Photoshop Elements 5 Video Tutorial - Create A DVD Cover In this video clip tutorial you will learn the following: How to make a dvd cover using a template. How to select a theme and add a photo.
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