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Design Category
Package design, 1996
Design firm
Sagmeister, Inc. (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs, Music Videos and Print Collateral
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The singer of Skeleton Key brought in a quirky Mexican guy’s illustration he had done on a postage stamp. There was no time and no budget so we just cut the stamp up, blew it up, put some other illustrations behind it, and shipped the whole thing.
Since it was a one-color job, we talked the label into matte-laminating the board. We wound up with two hits of black anyway to get that cherished “No more black” comment from the audience.