Making Vinyl Packaging Awards Goes All Virtual For 2020
CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN OCT. 14, SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: NOV. 13 Click Here for Submission Page For the fourth consecutive year, Making Vinyl will host a competition recognizing the best in vinyl, CD and cassette packaging. The submissions and judging process will be entirely online and requires high-resolution photographs of all entries, as well as […]
Congratulations to Jack W. Stoughton
Congratulations to Jack W. Stoughton for recently receiving the Printing Industries of America, Ben Franklin Honor Society award Jack W. Stoughton is the owner and president of Stoughton Printing Co. where he has served for 54 years. The company produces music packaging that earned the company two Grammy awards and 2017 Making Vinyl Packaging Award. The […]
The Decemberists Wins Gold at The Paperboard Packaging Competition
The event organized by the Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) and now is its 75th year selected The Decemberists – I’ll Be Your Girl box set as their Gold Winner and 2018 Package of the Year. This same entry also won the Alex Steinweiss, “Best in Show” at 2018 Making Vinyl Packaging Awards that was held at […]
BEST IN VINYL PACKAGING BESTOWED IN DETROIT
For Immediate Release Contact: Larry Jaffee, [email protected] 917-291-2488 Detroit – The best in vinyl records packaging was celebrated at the Making Vinyl Packaging Awards at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel here on Oct. 1 (http://makingvinyl.com). Three of the 12 categories (Boxed Set, Reissue, and Gatefold) were won by art director/designer Torsten Posselt of German design [...] Packaging Awards Methodology
Photo: (L-R) Front row: Jennifer Freund; Spencer Drate. Back row: Lilly Smith; Maribeth Paulson; Sean Mosher-Smith; Stefan Sagemister; Craig Braun; David Calderley; and Larry Jaffee (Bryan Ekus not pictured as he was stuck in traffic) The 2018 Making Vinyl Packaging Awards submissions and judging processes were much different from last year’s competition. This time, the […]
About Alex Steinweiss and the Alex Awards
By Larry Jaffee The Alex Awards was named after Alex Steinweiss, who is widely credited with being “the father of album graphics” during the second half of the 78-rpm record era and inventor of the LP jacket in 1948. His majestic illustrations adorned more than a thousand covers for the Columbia, Decca, London and Everest […]
