I guess that's one thing that i've never really though of: flipping
through things in a shop. Being that I order about 98% of my music online,
I rarely have any idea as to what the cover's going to look like anyway.
I'll concede that Ae's second Peel Session is not the easiest to discern,
but it's still there in clear type (no pun intended) once you get to it.
Other discs that people have mentioned, I've gone back and looked at again
and found that I still don't really have a problem figuring out what I'm
listening to.
Now the Crunch disc on MAS is a different story, but that's not tDR...
Later,
Alan!
np:Phonem:Ilisu (would anyone argue that the design work for Morr is
superb?)
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Christopher Miller wrote:
quoted 40 lines On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 Alan R Lucas wanted to know:
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 Alan R Lucas wanted to know:
>
> > can you give a few ferinstances of completely illegible tDR sleeves? i
> > really can't think of any.
>
> Let's see... I recall one of the Autechre Peel sessions to appear to be
> blank until you turn the sleeve to the correct angle so you can read the
> coated print. Designed to be ignored I guess.
>
> Also the _Lily Of The Valley_ comp. Are they *purposely* making it so
> people flipping through cds in a shop will skip over it? What is the
> typeface, like 6 point? Plus the tracklisting is barely legible. This
> whole sleeve looks like it's an incomplete rough.
>
> > i dunno. i've always thought that tDR's stuff was great in that the design
> > element was very cool, but you still knew what you were listening to.
>
> Aesthtics over functionality? This an *especially* bad idea when it comes
> to a various artists compilation.
>
> What's the point of a sleeve then? Maybe they should just wrap the disc in
> holiday wrapping paper then and be done with it. Or just have a completely
> blank cd, sans any print, in a clear jewel case. (I'm sure someone besides
> tDR has alrady done this...)
>
> > i just can't recall missing a tracklisting anywhere.
>
> It's not a missing tracklisting that's the problem...
>
> .`-).
> christopher miller o o.'
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