20 CD Label Designs

I had a really, really (and I mean REALLY) hard time finding good CD label designs. I would like to stick with a certain theme each week and deliver you with the total package on that theme. This week's Media Tip featured a portion on printing CD labels for your church. Well today's Design Inspiration post is about church or Christian CD labels.

I want you to do something. Yes, physically do something. If you have a CD from your church or another church lying around your house, go and get it. I mean it. Go and get it. ...I'm waiting for you to go get it. So hopefully you went and got it, or maybe you don't have one on hand. If you don't have one, go take a look the next time you are at church. Take at look at the design on your church CDs. Chances are they can be improved. Like, really improved. The problem is there aren't a lot of good examples of what your CDs should look like. For this reason I'm preparing a tutorial for creating clean CD label designs that will be featured tomorrow.

Here are 20 good (and I use that term loosely) CD designs to inspire that creative flare we all know you have.

These first couple are just random designs I found around the web in no particular order. Nothing is exceptionally WOW about these, but they are better than a lot of the boring generic stuff I found (Pictured right. Yuck!)

This next set is from CreationSwap. They cost money, about $7, to purchase the whole set. I believe it gives you the PSD and so you could purchase the design, change all the text, and then use it for your church if you wanted. The intention is to be for a one-time event, however, you could use it as your generic church CD if you so desired. You can find a few more designs here.

The best designs I found were on a new design blog I discovered called EntheosWeb. The designs they posted are pretty cool, but they too cost money if you desire to purchase them. Otherwise, just use them for inspiration in designing your own CD labels. Check out the full post here. There are several very clean designs here without any particular theme obvious. Some of them, though, are a little cluttered, but still very colorful and better than the ones above.

Do you feel inspired? Is your brain just welling with ideas after seeing these designs? Maybe you should go write it down. No, seriously, go write it down before you forget it. Then share your designs with your pastor. It's a way that you can help your church out and get involved in serving God.

Have any particular designs you want to see? Maybe posters? Maybe church bulletins? I'd like to hear about it. I want to focus our content to you, the reader, so that it benefits you the best. There are several ways you can do this. Leave a comment in the box below or click the link above called "Suggest a Topic."

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