Graphic Design for packaging & electronic media...

Your CD, DVD or Cassette wouldn't be complete without some form of packaging, so take advantage of the creative and technical expertise of the Sounds Good graphics department. Our designers can take your brief and design an artwork from scratch; or you can provide text, pictures, logos and an idea of what you want and let the design team knock it into shape for you; or if you’re providing your own artwork, they will check your files, making sure that your artwork conforms to the specifications and dimensions required for printing.

But it’s not all about packaging. We can help by providing custom graphic content for electronic media, and even take on the design and programming of complete web or ROM-based multimedia programs.

Remember, our designers are always ready to offer help and advice with any graphics-related questions you may have. Just phone and ask for the Graphics Department.

Design for packaging...

It’s important for your CD, DVD or cassette package to look good. You want it to stand out, attract attention and reinforce the image you’re putting over. So that’s why we at Sounds Good provide expertise not only in the technical side of manufacturing, but also in the creative design and layout of packaging for disc-based music, video, data and information products.

Click here to see some examples of design work done by Sounds Good.

Sit with our designers...

Getting your ideas from conception to print can be a nightmare for those unfamiliar with the processes involved. But if you're within reach of the Thames Valley, you're welcome to visit us and sit with one of our designers while he or she scans your pictures, quickly lays out all your artwork, shows you colour proofs, and produces the pre-press PDF files ready for printing. Just phone and book an artwork session with us.

Go to our 'CONTACT US' page and scroll to the bottom for the map of our location in Theale, just outside Reading.

We'll take care of the print...

For short-run duplicated product, we’ll print your packaging via our in-house Xerox digital print facility. For larger bulk replication runs, we will print via litho process, via our specialist media print partners.

Click here to get more information about Print & Packaging.

Design for electronic media...

A DVD Video programme needs navigation screens that look good and fit in with the concept of the programme. A CD-ROM presentation may require attractive front-end menu screens, or custom graphics. You may have existing audio, video, graphics or Powerpoint content that you need making into a multimedia CD-ROM. We can help! In addition to page layout and Photoshop skills, our graphics team also have the software packages and expertise to create 3D graphics and animations, and can also design and program complete web or ROM-based multimedia presentations.

Click here for more information about our Multimedia Design and Programming services.

Supplying your own artwork

Customers are welcome to send us press-ready artwork in the form of Adobe PDF files. However, in order to avoid any extra studio charges the artwork must be laid out on our templates, and must conform exactly to our dimensions and specifications. These are available from our office or CLICK HERE to go to our template download centre.

Creating press-ready PDFs to this standard requires a great deal of knowledge of reprographics and print, and, in our experience, often proves to be beyond the capabilities of the average computer user. But our graphics department will happily take your artwork files and create the PDFs for you. We can handle files from the following software packages…

MAC - Quark Express (up to V6); Photoshop (up to CS2); InDesign (up to CS2); Illustrator (up to CS2)

PC - Quark Express (up to V4); Photoshop (up to CS3); InDesign (up to CS3); Corel Draw (up to V11); Illustrator (up to CS3); Publisher (V2002)