A client once sent me a dieline with the wrong measurements. I finished the design and sent it, and the printer returned the file. I fixed it and sent it again. Since then, I check the dieline before I start.
After 8 years of designing packaging and labels, I made THALVENE, a skincare jar and label concept, to show how I work: 50 ml and 30 ml jars, a lid label, a back label, and print-ready files with bleed and safe margins.
Has a printer ever sent your label file back? If you own a skincare or private label brand in the US or Europe and sell in online stores or on your own site, see the full case study in the first comment.
This question has been doing the rounds on X and I have to say, I'm firmly on the other side of that argument. I've always loved seeing typography become part of the artwork rather than just a title sitting on top of it.
So I wanted to put that idea to the test with an imagined album called Nothing Stays Still, inspired by change, fleeting moments and everything in between:)
I played around with the lettering until it felt expressive, a little restless, and inseparable from the photograph.
Because I think badly considered typography is tacky. Typography itself? Give it a chance :)
What's an album cover where the type really makes it for you?