GOLFWANG

While I was finishing the mixing process, I started thinking about making physical copies album.  I wanted to make a short run of nice copies,  not just CDs in blank sleeves.  Or even Argyle-patterned sleeves.  So I turned to my own (limited) record collection, and found that I liked the Old Canes' rather artisanal package design for their second album, Feral Harmonic.  I remembered that I'd seen a video of the people at Saddle Creek assembling them and somehow managed to forget the pain and exhaustion in their faces, deciding that I would try to make something similar.

The first step was figuring out a layout for the sleeve itself.  I found a way to get a 5" x 5 5/8" sleeve out of a piece of 12x12 cardstock, so that's what I ended up doing.  60 sheets, so I figured on an edition of 50 copies.

I forgot all about my camera during the first, uninteresting part.  Just know that I measured out the shape I needed on the sheets of black cardstock, cut them out, folded them, then glued them together with rubber cement.

So there's one finished.  The CD slides into the right side, the cover is just one sheet folded over and glued.

There are 58 of them in a row.  The spine was tricky, in retrospect I think if I had scored the inside with a box cutter, they would have folded better.  As they are, there's no way that I could write the band name on the side.  Ah well.