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Design Category
Package design, 1996
Design firm
Cornynshen Advertising (San Francisco, California)
Collection
(1997) Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs, Music Videos and Print Collateral

Description

We wanted to give people a deal on music. We wanted to be blatant about our intentions to sell records—i.e., no slick sales pitch. We wanted it dirt cheap. We wanted it to be cool. We wanted to tell people that this music was a by-product of other great albums. Hence, Buy Product.

Credits
Art directors: Chris Cornyn, Billy Shen
Designer: Billy Shen
Photographer: Rick Der
Writer: Chris Cornyn
Client: Geffen Records