1. The project Designlabor 25|25 has been launched online: packaging design in order to build the stage for fictive and real products.

    The designer and other parties of the project write about trends, aspects and chances of packaging and design. Personal experiences and details to new concepts, tweets as well as updates from Facebook are bunched on the blog. Also stickers of blank white package shapes are available to download. These stickers are an invitation to everybody to take a pencil and create their own packaging design. The results can be uploaded on our blog or flickr and will be presented in the online gallery.

     
  2. CD Sequencer

    London-based interactive media artist Matthew Falla has created an ingenious new way to remix music. As I understand it, Falla has designed CD packaging that contains a screen printed visual “circuit board” that contains information about the tracks on a CD. The user draws with a conductive marker on the packaging, connecting the the lines. The packaging is then inserted into a USB card reader connected to a computer, which controls the playback of the CD. Matthew’s other projects include a bird feeder that discriminates against pigeons, a sneaky pirate TV souvenir, and a cut-out computer.

    Click HERE to see how it works.

     
  3. 16:30

    tags: digital

    Pen-drive containing songs of the artist Roberto Coelho, packed in a container made with several layers of paper, which refers to the format of a CD.

    Designed by BLUE BOSSA: http://www.bluebossa.art.br/

     
  4. Cool Cube Toys has delivered unique solutions to the packaging and presentation USB device. This is a link to their amazon storefront.

     
  5. LA Times article about the new platform of mini flash cards that record labels are currently beginning to explore.

     
  6. 20:36

    tags: digital

    Article discuss Atlantic Records’ new platform of FANBASE, which is a online desktop experience which updates news, pictures, tour dates, etc. of your favorite artists while incorporate a chat client and more.

    Check out FANBASE at: http://widgets.atlrec.com/

     
  7. 20:31

    tags: digital

    Kanye West, following suit of Radiohead, has released free stems (different elements of his song) “Lock Lockdown” to his fans for remixing. You can download different parts of the song to manipulate.

     
  8. Ractonteur’s March 5th, 2009 issue—article on current packaging innovations we can see on the current and future market

     
  9. 19:03 21st Feb 2010

    notes: 2

    tags: digital

    Created by designer COLM KELLER

    The kit contains four parts and these are as follows;

    - A digital scrapbook finished in birch wood with porcelain caps.
    - A carving knife with laminated steel blade and birch and oak handle.
    - A hub for both digital scrapbooks finished in porcelain.
    - A carrying envelope finished in grey felt, brown aniline cow leather with birch duffel button and laser cut details.

    http://www.colmkeller.com/

     
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    limited edition packaging solution for Gary Hustwit’s movie Objectified.

    limited edition packaging solution for Gary Hustwit’s movie Objectified.

     
  11. Wine Box Radio
Design Work by Afro Coffee:
https://www.afrocoffee.com/

    Wine Box Radio

    Design Work by Afro Coffee:

    https://www.afrocoffee.com/

     
  12. User’s first interactions with RJDJ interactive music iphone application. The creator’s compare this application to the effect of drugs.

     
  13. 20:37

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    tags: digital

    Review of Brian Eno and Peter Chilver’s BLOOM Iphone app. This is an interactive music creator application for the IPhone format.

     
  14. This is an interview with Justin, the creator of HARDFORMAT, regarding music packaging and what the future holds.

     
  15. sample of digital download card

    Standard material is a high-quality plastic, .30 mil in thickness, the same as a standard bank card. The minimum quantity is 100 for .49 each, and go up increments from there