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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 music is a compilation of Portuguese-influenced music from the African islands of Cape Verde and São Tome. We unified the wide range of different lyrics and artists with a hole that is die-cut through the booklet. My friend Tomi (who reads more Taoists than I do) suggests that the central theme of the cover is “nothingness.”