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Design Category
Package design, 1996
Design firm
Geffen Records (Los Angeles, California)
Collection
(1997) Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs, Music Videos and Print Collateral
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This album is all about teen crushes and falling in and out of love, so we chose to imitate a teen romance novel. The cover illustration really nailed the look we were after. We continued the theme on the inside by treating the song and lyrics as chapters in a book and even doing an “about the authors” bit with the band bios. I think this package is successful because it captures the look and feeling of what the songs are all about.