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Stanley Family Reserve

A fun little "side project" we recently designed for Paul Stanley of KISS: His friend in Uruguay, who is the owner of the Yellow Rose Vinyards in Punta del Este produced a limited run of Pinot Noir wine for Paul’s personal Stanley Family Reserve for which we designed the label featuring one of Paul's paintings. It was packaged in a beautiful 3-bottle box and gifted to his friends.

    JOHNNY CASH

    Project

    The Legend of JOHNNY CASH

    Client

    American / Def Jam

    Category
    Packaging
    About This Project

    This is a compilation of his best work and it is the first such album to contain material from Cash’s American Recordings era in addition to songs from his time at Sun and Columbia, as well as one track recorded for Island Records. The record label provided us with a good amount of photo material from Cash’s career. Upon reviewing it all, I immediately zeroed in on the photo which eventually (and without great resistance) became the cover shot. I wanted something iconic and different. The man in black with his guitar, walking away. I also managed to sneak in the famous ‘bird’ photo by the legendary Jim Marshall. It is placed in the clear tray under the actual CD. Some people called the record company to complain because they were offended. Good. I am sure Cash would have liked that! I know Marshall would approve for sure!

     

    Nerd fact: This CD might just be the best-selling album we have ever designed. To this day, it has sold upwards of 4 million copies in the USA.