‘The Diskettes’ CD packaging
February 26th, 2006
Designer: David Barclay and Emily Beliveau
Client: The Diskettes, Montreal, PQ
Date: 2003
Album packaging non-design at its best. With their simultaneous appropriation (conscious or not) of Peter Savilles classic Blue Monday “vinyl-cum-computer disk” LP sleeve of 1982, their adaptive reuse of the “objet trouve” of classic Sierra Online computer game disks (painstakingly collected from used computer stores Canada-wide), and their genuine punk sensibility, Montreal’s The Diskettes achieve classic status.
- Jesse Jackson
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1. CrunchGear » Archiv&hellip | July 25th, 2008 at 18:21
[...] drive, it’ll pop up with a little text-based adventure game. Looks like someone did this before, but not with quite the amount of verve these guys [...]
2. Kick-Ass Packaging of the&hellip | August 8th, 2009 at 02:19
[...] idea of using Floppy Diskettes for album packaging is not new. It has been done before by New Order, Porch Nap and some others but I have to say I find the new packaging of Science Vs. Witchcraft the [...]
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