Saturday, April 24, 2010

There's a lake of stew, and of whiskey too, and you can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe...




Here's a look into a few revisions I did on a CD packaging project. The goal was to make a package for a single of Harry McClintock's Big Rock Candy Mountains. The song is based in the legends of hobos riding the tracks and is really quite amusing. I don't know about you, but I'd love to go where "they hung the jerk that invented work", right after sampling those lemonade springs and the delicacies mentioned in the title of this post.
At first, I had it in a horrible plastic jewel case that just didn't fit the rest of the project at all, and I won't even show you the embarrassing thing. Then I moved onto this:
I liked the design, but it was a little too flimsy, so I got some thicker paper and unleashed my newly acquired bookbinding knowledge to create this nifty paper wrapper:

To see the whole shebang, check out my portfolio on Behance at:
http://www.behance.net/KateOberg.


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