Sleevelessness is a blog about graphic design, digital music and the web

Sunday 27 January 2008

Seven inch project

Having recently lamented the death of the record sleeve, I'm was intrigued to stumble across Seven Inch Project this evening. It's a record label that releases music on very limited runs of seven inch vinyl, with gate–fold sleeves and artist designed artwork. When you purchase the record you also get access to a high quality mp3 download so you can easily play the music on your digital devices too. While it's always going to be a niche market and you're never going to buy all of your music in this way, It seems like a nice way to own something tangible connected to a particularly favourite artist. Unfortunately, at the moment there's no way to see from the website what you're actually going to get. Some good photography of the packaging would go a long way toward convincing punters to click the magic buy link.

Update: Clarke from Seven Inch Project has been in contact to say the site has now been updated with extra photos of the record sleeves and cover art - great to see them responding to feedback so promptly.

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