CD - Art: Innovation in CD Packaging Design [Hardcover]

"It is entertaining and sure to stimulate your creative side,
making you think differently about design."

A comprehensive collection of the best contemporary CD cover designs, featuring many previous unpublished examples from the cutting edge, this volume includes work from well-known designers from Stefan Sagmeister (Lou Reed and many others), Malcolm Garrett (Buzzcocks) and Peter Saville (Joy Division, New Order) to Tomato (Underworld), Farrow (The Pet Shop Boys) and lesser known names and in-house teams (such as the RCA designers who worked with The Strokes and the Foo Fighters) who have used this medium as a widely disseminated platform for experimentation and free expression. In addition to traditional graphic elements of album cover art - image, illustration, and typography - "CD - Art" explores experimentation unique to the CD format: from handmade and unusual packaging and materials to textures, interactive designs and marketing incentives. It shows how designers exploit the two and three dimensional qualities of CD packaging to create highly collectable and unique objects that are displayed, handled, interrogated for information, explored for meaning and venerated by fans.

Music album cover artwork has provided some of the finest
examples of graphic design in history, and launched the careers of some of
today's greatest, most innovative and influentional graphic designers. The
CD is potentially even more important for the designer, in that it is not
just a cover but a complete package that crosses the line between two and
three dimensions.

From radical experimental work outside the commercial mainstream to some of
the best-known and bestselling CD packages of all time, CD-Art showcases a
huge international sample of innovative, exciting, and outstandingly
successful work from a range of designers across the globe.

Jampacked with ideas, styles, and materials, the book is the definitive
reference for any designer or music lover who enjoys seeing and touching as
well as hearing the music. A must-have for practical professional reference
and an enthusiastic collector's item, CD-Art takes the visual pulse of any
industry in flux - and pronounces it healthy.

Charlotte Rivers is a journalist with a passion for design, who
has written for Graphics International, Print and Lab magazines, among
others. She is author of the RotoVision books Identify and Maximalism. She
lives and works in London, UK.