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.
Sunday, 27 January 2008
Seven inch project
Posted by Phil at 19:46
Labels: design, music, packaging, record-label, sleeve-art
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