Design Milk and Insound have collaborated on a monthly column entitled Music & Design. As the column introduction states, “the design associated with music, such as posters, album art, and t-shirt designs, is a unique niche and warrants a dedicated column.” We couldn’t agree more.

The first installment of the Artist Music Journals, from Jason Yates, is featured in this month’s column, along with show posters from Florafauna, Methane Studios and Sonnenzimmer, as well as an exquisitely well packaged LP from Earth.

Read the column here.

Head over to Brightest Young Things to check out the article “Making the Little Bucks: Music Distribution in 2009?” It features our very own Mike Treff discussing the difficulty the music industry faces as it struggles to sell a product most people can now get for free. Concurrently it touches upon the vinyl resurgence as a response to the customer’s preference to shell out for music in a tangible, physical form.

Mike states, “The focus of 2009 should be on product development, and thus, on the transformation of what it is distribution companies sell as opposed to how they find ways to re-sell/re-deliver the same thing they have been selling for 60+ years, pre-recorded audio content.” And all of us here at Soundscreen Design couldn’t agree more.