Design of Packaging for Discs

Overview

“We will show you some of our influences: the work of incredible designers like Alex Steinweiss and Kelli Anderson, record labels like Factory Records, media theorists like Marshall McLuhan and directors like Michel Gondry. All this generates a remix of referents that makes a lot of sense for us.”

In this video lesson Cactus Taller Gráfico addresses the topic: Influences (Teachers - Daft Punk), which is part of the Domestika online course: Design of Packaging for Discs. Turn music discs packaging into an innovative element that communicates.

Partial transcription of the video

“Welcome to this lesson. I want to tell you a little about my references and the work of those designers, theorists, writers, filmmakers, that have influenced my work and how I see the world. Let's start with Alex Steinweiss. Steinweiss was the inventor of the first illustrated cover. This, for example, is the first cover that Steinweiss designed for Columbia Records. And it's very curious because obviously, back then, most of the covers had text, but it was very simple text, there were no illustrations and is what they call somehow as tombstone cover. It simply had a centered text and the c...”

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Course summary for: Design of Packaging for Discs

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (46)
• 683 students
• 4 units
• 12 lessons (2h 29m)
• 14 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Branding & Identity, Graphic Design, Packaging, Product Design