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Upside-Down CD Spines

Lukas Kendall
Mar 2
1 min read

I just want to take a random minute here to rant about something that is so stupid and annoying, I don’t know why anybody does it.

UPSIDE-DOWN CD SPINES!

Come on, designers? WHY?!?!?

The spine needs to read from the top down—like a book. So when it lays flat—or in a box of inventory—it’s right-side up.

Of course we can just flip these upside-down in our boxes, but then they’re backwards.

I don’t get it.

I seem to remember some old GNP Cresendo and CAM titles being this way.

Shame!

10 commentaires

Steven Awalt

16 mars

Same with book spines printed upsidedown. What madness is that?

Leo R.

03 mars

In France and Germany, all book spines are upside down (from an Anglophone perspective) as a rule.

justafigleaf

06 mars

En réponse à

I much prefer the aesthetic of a “descending” title, but the European method does have a certain logic to it. If a CD’s lying on a table face-up, the title is more likely to be visible on the cover. If lying face down, the spine title is viewable face-up without having to move it.

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Andrew

03 mars

Yes...this was a favourite thing of GNP's to do...and I'm stuffed if I can work out why. 2 possible solutions were 1) simply a graphic design mistake, where someone didn't pay attention OR 2) was /is this a "European" style thing? Not sure why I think this...MAYBE I read it somewhere years ago or I just made it up!!! Whatever the reason....BLOODY ANNOYING!!!

Robert Knaus

02 mars

This drives me insane.

Traveling Matt

02 mars

I don't typically have an issue with single discs, but my pet peeve is inverted spine text on quad cases. The boutique labels tend to print different text on all four spines but the pairs are typically inverted from each other.