<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396084414430282494</id><updated>2012-02-16T02:02:25.633-08:00</updated><category term='Cd Covers'/><title type='text'>CDmasters.com</title><subtitle type='html'>Design Ideas, Marketing Concepts and the Latest News for CDMasters.com</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cdmastersblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/396084414430282494/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cdmastersblog.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>CDmasters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17450660934740719136</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-396084414430282494.post-3480752221806500677</id><published>2011-11-21T12:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-21T13:05:03.224-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Cd Covers'/><title type='text'>CD Design - Simpler is Better</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;In CD packaging your band name or even "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;"&gt;brand name"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt; will help define you. Capturing the attention of your audience with a dramatic or compelling image may help evoke the essence of the project.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IuFAyXaSUZo/Tsq87NY_vKI/AAAAAAAAABs/D1ZgEEg-71Q/s1600/Bombayimage+for+blog.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IuFAyXaSUZo/Tsq87NY_vKI/AAAAAAAAABs/D1ZgEEg-71Q/s1600/Bombayimage+for+blog.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Before you are a known entity you often only have an instant to get noticed... so make it count. The simpler layout is often better and with music packaging, a photograph of the artist on a CD cover is often compelling enough. Keeping it simple yet&amp;nbsp;poignant&amp;nbsp;and ultimately true to the intent of the project.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"&gt;Like anything, finding the balance of images and information can make or break the&amp;nbsp;effectiveness&amp;nbsp;of conveying a concept.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Verdana; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/396084414430282494-3480752221806500677?l=cdmastersblog.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://cdmastersblog.blogspot.com/feeds/3480752221806500677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://cdmastersblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/cd-design-simpler-is-better.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/396084414430282494/posts/default/3480752221806500677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/396084414430282494/posts/default/3480752221806500677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://cdmastersblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/cd-design-simpler-is-better.html' title='CD Design - Simpler is Better'/><author><name>CDmasters</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17450660934740719136</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IuFAyXaSUZo/Tsq87NY_vKI/AAAAAAAAABs/D1ZgEEg-71Q/s72-c/Bombayimage+for+blog.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
