Future of music packaging
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- Baskerville
I read this article on Design Observer by Adrian Shaughnessy which is about how music packaging and graphics will evolve with music downloads.
Will you be able to download the artwork as PDF or will you get a tiny jpeg to put in iTunes?http://www.designobserver.com/ar…
It's an interesting topic. When I was at college we had a project that involved this same problem.
It would be really cool if Apple would introduce support for animated gifs or even swf files for the album artwork, that way even if it was small in size, you could still do something interesting with it.
- Bluejam0
the last cd i bought was
http://www.honestjons.com/shop.p…
..the packaging (it was more like a book with a very nice double fold for the cd) was, too some extent, even better than the music. the content - excellent essay on the history of the artists and some beautiful photography would never work as a digital experience (imo).
keep it physical, please.
- Baskerville0
should have known an actual design thread would crash and burn.
- Bluejam0
not wrong there
- tadcautious0
phish has been releasing live concerts for the past few years and the firm JDK does a great job of designing printable cover art & cd faces in pdf format to go with it. i like this idea, i wish it would catch on to more internet releases.
- vespa0
i nearly bought that london is the place for me album just cos the cover is so great. (listening wasn't as good tho)
pete and the pirates arrived yesterday and it was in a little wax-paper package, hand-stamped and the ink even smelt nice. i love it more than all the albums i downloaded the previous week.
animated covers could be cool for itunes. maybe the videos will be the covers. maybe album cover designers will become specialist musical sting designers. or more likely music video makers will have to create a 3 second "cover" version of their artwork the way cover designers today have to create resized thumbnails for download shops.
- Bluejam0
likely music video makers will have to create a 3 second "cover" version of their artwork the way cover designers today have to create resized thumbnails for download shops.
vespa
(Apr 13 07, 08:10)bit like those Radiohead 'Ok computer' tv ad stings from years ago
- Meeklo0
I read this article on Design Observer by Adrian Shaughnessy which is about how music packaging and graphics will evolve with music downloads.
Baskerville
(Apr 13 07, 05:57)I think the article is about how he THINKS packaging will change in the future.
There is really nothing certain about the future, that being said, I think a jpeg on a computer does not qualify as packaging for anything, I think you have to be able to touch it in order to call it packaging.
So to me, packaging will stay packaging, a new way to represent a music track or an album may emerge, and that's cool, I like coverflow on itunes better than seeing the list view.
Animated gif.. not sure how that could be, but then again why not just make the entire video as a graphic representation of the album?
- vespa0
bit like those Radiohead 'Ok computer' tv ad stings from years ago
Bluejam
(Apr 13 07, 08:23)exactly like that. i didn't mean it's a novel idea, just that it will become a normal asset to handover with the video...
- walkman0
I still like vinyl and big old record jackets.
I wish that's the only way it came.
- johndiggity0
i don't understand the need for "packaging" on a product that is in no way physical. there's no packaging when i download a photo from getty. i think more than anything this is about expectations and tradition. we expect there to be some type of packaging just because that is the way it has conventionaly done.
and why just one song? i mean, i'm on a pretty powerful machine that can do a lot more than just play music. i can watch things, i can interact, i can publish ideas...
the internet really is a whole new medium that hasn't even been close to fully exploited. the problem is that the various media companies are too scared to change and continue to push content bound to old formats through the web.
- abba_cadaver0
I sometimes hate the idea that my daughters will sift through my music collection while never actually touching or seeing the packaging.
I'd would much rather they find them in a box in the attic or in my office and play the first ones based on the covers they like.
- Bluejam0
amen.
- Meeklo0
I sometimes hate the idea that my daughters will sift through my music collection while never actually touching or seeing the packaging.
I'd would much rather they find them in a box in the attic or in my office and play the first ones based on the covers they like.
abba_cadaver
(Apr 13 07, 08:34)I agree..
seeing a list of files on a computer screen is certainly not attractive, coverflow has a good analogy of the concept "fliping through record covers" but you loose a big part of the sensorial experience. Its not the same.Plus, 10 years ago a music fan will have a bookshelf full of records or cds, very different from someone who really does not care much about music, that may have 1 or 2 wallets of ripped cds (that friends gave him probably) today, those 2 people can carry very different ammounts of music in the same small medium (mp3 player)
its a bit weird you know?
yes you save space, with is a good thing but you loose that sense of owning an object I guess..