I was delighted to hear the news that one of my designs at Printhouse Corporation for British Music Experience CD case won second prize in the PaperCo’s 2009 MCS (Maine, Chromomat, Satimat) competition.
A year before Britain’s new interactive museum of popular music opened, I was asked to design CD style promotional pack for the British Music Experience (BME). The BME is a permanent exhibition at The O2 arena, dedicated to the history of pop music over the past 60 years. I went for a retro style, keeping with British colours from the Union Jack.
The BME pack was printed by PrintHouse Corporation. It is a 125mm square booklet using 400gsm Chromomat Club for the cover and 170gsm Chromomat for inside pages. It was printed on Printhouse Corporation’s Speedmaster, a B1 format SM102-6-P, running Kodak Electra Excel HRL plates.
The design was gloss laminated throughout and involved some complex finishing. The design was die cut into shape, glued to give a double thickness front page but leaving an open ended CD pocket on the back page. The text pages were then taped and saddle-stitched into the case to give a really classy finish.
400gsm Chromomat was used, because of the coated cover weight for maximum strength & durability, but at the same time it retains excellent colour vibrancy throughout. The BME is an interactive exhibition with strong visual content (and sound…) and I wanted to convey this with eye-catching imagery contained in a small, user-friendly promotional pack.
The second prize secured me a weekend to Florence. I will undertake this in the beginning of spring 2010. I can not wait!
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