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Nice work on this collaborative effort by Edit (creative production) and Sawdust (art direction and design) on the concept and packaging of the new Fabrice Lig album. With photography by Andrew Moore who supplied visuals from his book Detroit Disassembled.

Project Thirty-Three has an amazing selection of vintage record sleeves, with some excellent examples of modernist graphic design, collected, scanned and archived by the owner of Jive Time Records, a Seattle based store specializing in used vinyl.

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Cool 2 CD pocketpac with art direction, typographic imagery and design by Non-Format.

Designed at Real World by Marc Bessant, this beautifully packaged ‘Scratch My Back Collector’s Edition‘ is presented in a rigid, full colour and gloss laminated lift off lid box, which includes:

A 4Gb USB key containing 96khz/24 bit studio quality audio of the album, housed in a high density laser engraved foam tray.

Blood Red, 180gsm heavyweight 12 inch vinyl pressing of ‘Scratch My Back’.

A 12 inch square print of the album cover, printed on the 352gsm Mohawk Superfine Ultrawhite Smooth stock.

The Special Edition double CD of the album, presented in a case bound full colour and gloss laminated 10 inch cover.

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Beautiful limited edition transparent vinyl version of Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Revep EP, released in 2006 on the Raster Noton label.

1-Bit Symphony by Tristan Perich, is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. A complete electronic circuit, programmed by the artist and assembled by hand, plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into a regular CD jewel case.

Space Monkey from Leo Burnett on Vimeo.

Space Monkey comes back to Earth after 65 years in space and is not impressed.

Created as a collaboration between World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ben Lee and Leo Burnett, “Space Monkey” carries a message about our planet, and features Ben Lee’s track, “Song for the Divine Mother of the Universe”.

Stunning 3d image by Milos. of the legendary 1979 Unknown Pleasure LP Artwork by Joy Division.

The original album cover image is a reversal of a graphic taken from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy and represents successive pulses from the first discovered pulsar.

Via frosty.

“Man fixes some wonderful erection of his own between himself and the wild chaos, and gradually goes bleached and stifled under his parasol. Then comes a poet, enemy of convention, and makes a slit in the umbrella; and lo! the glimpse of chaos is a vision, a window to the sun.”

—D. H. Lawrence