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Design Category
Package design, 1996
Design firm
Sony Music (New York, New York)
Collection
(1997) Sound Off: The Top 100 CDs, Music Videos and Print Collateral

Description

I gave myself a set of tools to create this package: one font, one color for each disk, and black-and-white photography. The imagery depicts things that might be found on a cocktail table in a club (the location of the recording), and the type treatment suggests the free-form nature of a jazz session. This project was produced on a very tight budget, so there are no extras. It is all 4/1 printing on dull coated stock, in a plastic jewel case within a plain box.

Credits
Art director/designer: Julian Peploe
Photographer: Dora Handel
Typeface: Futura
Client: Columbia Records