Bugged Out!: Classics
With over 12 years of design heritage behind it, a design for Bugged Out! Classics is like doing the “Best Of” for bands like U2, Beatles and the like. You don’t want to replicate what has been done previously and you want this to stand on its own.
Rather than fake being hip and know the UK club scene I’ve pasted text from their about page on Bugged Out! website which explains what the hell it is.
Bugged Out is an all night electro/techno party that takes place at The End in London, Sankeys in Manchester and The Loft in Barcelona. We also visit other clubs in the UK and around the world. We are over 12 years old (which in club years means we can grow a nice moustache) and had LFO at our first party in November 1994 and have had everyone from Daft Punk, Green Velvet, The Chemical Brothers, Miss Kittin, Ellen Allien, Tiga to Vitalic over the years.
If clubs were people, Bugged Out! would certainly be able smack down most of it’s competitors based on it’s creds. Classics is a compilation with each of the 3 CDs presented as an ASCII cover all wrapped up in a lovely digi pack with a booklet and poster thrown in for good measure. I’m not a fan of folded CD posters though. They always look shite on your wall due to the number of folds.
I do however love the simplicity of the ASCII with the Dayglo like paper. The UK design group Zip have looked after the creative direction for Bugged Out! for the last 9 years and I think this is the best work for the project to date.
Here’s the fold out poster which chronicles the design history of the club.
I found this album on CR’s blog. The lead in for the article sums up exactly what we at Sleevage have been talking about for a while.
Already this year several musical packages have landed on our desks and made us very happy – not least because they conspire to give a clear indication that budgets for music packaging are on the up. It would seem that the big labels are starting to take note of the examples smaller labels such as Motive Sounds (CR March 07) or Lex Records (CR December 03) have set in recent years: lavish, interesting packaging makes the product desirable… Of course, downloading an album or a single track for peanuts is far more appealing than spending £15 on a mass-produced plastic case with a cheaply printed piece of paper inside and a plastic disc. However, make something a little bit special – and there’s a far better chance we’ll seek it out to buy and subsequently treasure.
For those wanting to do their own ASCII text there are plenty of online tools. I made this Sleevage one using this ASCII generator.
I’m surprised that this ASCII hasn’t been used before for a CD cover. It’s easy to produce and cheap to print not to mention stands out from the crowd, it must have just been overlooked.
P.S: We apologise for the lack of updates recently. We’ve been busy planting trees, saving kittens and coaching little league. But we’ve grown tired of that and are back to keep blogging about CD covers and music.
JT:
“It’s” = It is
# 26 Feb 08 at 4:38 am
Ash:
Thanks JT :)
# 26 Feb 08 at 10:33 pm
T-Bone:
Damn, i wanted to do some ASCII stuff.
# 20 Nov 08 at 1:42 pm
yard:
you seen this album cover?
http://www.discogs.com/Various-rkk13cd/release/18341
ASCII with birds and things.. fun stuff..
# 13 Feb 09 at 8:54 am