Characteristics of CD cover design

Before the birth of CD records, movie records have always occupied the mainstream of the record market. Although their cover design has many similarities with CD records, the cover size of CD records is 12.5cm* 12cm, while the size of film records is several times larger than that of CD records, and the design space is much larger than that of CD records. On the cover of CD records, not only the basic information such as the name of the record, the name of the singer and the theme map should be reflected. , but also according to the characteristics of different music types or singers to design and arrange graphics and text. Therefore, it is much more difficult to design a small CD cover space and achieve the purpose of publicity.

2. Strong artistry

Although CD cover design is a derivative of music and closely related to commerce, many CD cover designs are full of commercial flavor, but there are still many excellent CD cover design works without commercial impetuousness. Their colleagues who pursue commercial effects also attach great importance to the combination with art. Many successful CD cover designs are marked with photos with remarkable artistic characteristics, realistic paintings with individuality, expressive abstract hand-drawn graffiti and so on.

Thirdly, the size design of CD cover.

Paper size of traditional CD case: the main cover is on the left. Size: width 125MM, 3MM bleeding on the left, height 126, 3MM bleeding on the top and bottom. Secondary seal (picture on the right side of the main cover): The width and height are the same as the left side, but the bleeding position is on the right side. Size of backing paper (excluding two folds): width 138MM without bleeding, height 124MM, bleeding 3MM above and below. Dimensions of two folds of backing paper: effective dimensions are width 7MM+3MM bleeding (note that one is on the left and the other is on the right), height 124MM, and upper and lower bleeding 3MM..

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