The Journal of Popular Noise

The Journal of Popular Noise is an audio "package" that takes the word magazine from potential obsolescence into something you may want to keep and treasure. Each edition comes in an accordion package that includes three 7-inch vinyls and is beautifully put together, letter pressed and part of a limited run of 300. It's interesting because it takes the CD packages that graphic design students so often want to do and explores music's relevance, history and future.

Comments

[Randy Ludacer]

Wonderful structure. It looks like in might unfold all the way into a poster. I'd love to see the mechanical for this.

[Simon]

Wonderful structure indeed...

[natasha]

I forgot to mention that the design was done as a personal project by Byron Kalet who also works for Visionaire.

[Peter]

This is a great concept. I just re-created myself and it does fold into a perfect poster size.

[Katey]

I wish people would stop using the "word" "letterpressed." "Letter pressed" is even worse.

I am a letterpress printer, and I'd prefer you say it was, well, "letterpress printed." That way it sounds like something that was made under the careful eye of a person, rather than having sprung fully formed from the brow of some mythical 100 year old machine. Letterpress doesn't happen without printers.

That being said, I'd love to handle this thing to just figure out exactly how it was produced. Is it folded out of one big sheet or is it a several glued together?

[Chris]

What font is the POPULAR NOISE done with? I love it.

[Evelio]

How do these stay in the envelope? I don't see a closure flap to contain the disks. I like it but it seems incomplete without a way to keep the product from falling out and breaking or scratching. Still like it, just wondering.

[e @ theSCOOP]

I know I'm late to the game, but I thought people might be interested in seeing some more pics of this lovely packaging over at MoCo Loco...http://www.mocoloco.com/archives/004334.php

Oh, and to answer Evelio's questions, there isn't a closure per se - the records actually just stay in place because of the thickness of the paper and the way the folds tuck in... if that makes sense. And (I would assume to prevent scratching) the individual records are in their own sleeves inside the folded piece.