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Design Category
Package design, 1996
Design firm
Verve Records (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs, Music Videos and Print Collateral
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We at Verve wanted to design a package with a look and feel that embodied the 1940s music it contains. What better than the wonderful electronic device that delivered the music itself—the radio. We designed a package reminiscent of the Bakelite radios of that period, incorporating the Mercury logo as part of the structure’s front grill. This radio structure holds the seven CDs in miniature 78 rpm record jackets and sleeves from the ’40s and an 82-page booklet designed to look like an old radio manual, which includes graphics, photos, original fliers, newspaper clippings, and various Mercury logos of that decade.