I'm with you all the way on this one Catherine. This is the first package I've bought since the good old record days where I didn't feel ripped off. I miss opening a new album and pouring over the packaging, artwork and credits. It was a real treat opening travelogue. DF ----- Original Message ----- From: "Catherine McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jonilist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 11:02 PM Subject: Travelogue packaging
> I think the packaging for Travelogue has to be the > best CD package design I've ever seen. There may be > others out there, but I haven't seen them. The box > itself that holds everything is sturdy but there's no > plastic involved. The texture of the stock (whether > it's the cardboard/paper or the ink used to print it) > is smooth and silky. Then inside you've got a book of > lyrics and, best of all, the hard-cover little book > inside with a CD on each side and the wonderful > pictures of Joni's paintings. I love the look of it > and the feel of it. I guess I'm a bit of a packaging > freak. My Dad worked in the corrugated paper industry > where there's not a lot of artistic license (how many > ways can you reinvent the beer carton?) but I remember > how he had the plant's artists come up with a design > for a bed for our dog and, when I was in Grade 1, a > "TV" that I brought to school that the kid could sit > inside and do a show for the class (singing, reciting, > a puppet show, or whatever), so the kid could be "on > TV." > > Since then, I have to say I admire a well-thought-out > package, one that makes sense for what it contains, > but that also has a sort of beauty on its own. Like, > for example, those tetrahedron juice containers. > There's a product you can buy in Canada, at least in > the Toronto area, called "Lola". It's a fruit drink > that you can either drink, or freeze and eat like a > popsicle. The container is a tetrahedon and it's > brilliant. The other kind of thing I love is boxes > that open up and there's another inside, and another > inside that. Like the Russian Matrushka dolls. Last > Christmas, I gave my daughter a pair of earings but I > wrapped the first box, inside another box, wrapped; > then again, inside another box. It was just for fun > and so she wouldn't guess (right away, that is) what > it was. > > I just think the package for Travelogue, the design > and the artwork and everything, are so amazing, that > Joni (if it's her design and I think it's at least > partly hers) should win some kind of award for that. > > > > > ===== > Catherine > Toronto > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
