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https://www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/interview-marek-polewski


"I find conventional plastic CDs, for example, completely uninteresting 
as products."

Then he is volunteering the information that he is not
suited to design CD box sets.

I have the Furtwangler and Karajan box sets and the
same design of both is over packaging designed to be less
useful as a CD box set.  Where are the dates and lists
of performances, they are buried in the book.  There are
no contents on the outer packaging which makes it the
pig in a poke style.

But this sounds worse:

"What was the idea behind the removable photos in the Ozawa edition?

It's not a mass-produced box, but an interactive booklet with inserted 
photos that fall out. This gives the impression of getting a 
particularly intimate insight. A bit like leaves that you press between 
book pages."

I never liked the leaves, flowers or bugs pressed into
old novels I get, they discolor the paper.  Maybe I
should have saved those twigs and sent them to him for
his next box set.

"What I create shouldn't look like graphic design."

But it does, they sure don't look like box sets.

"The result is, in each case, always more than a simple CD box."

Practical packaging is always better than any "funny" design.

"What is decisive for you when selecting the paper?"

The paper quality in the book is great for those box sets, but then:

"With Thomas Struth (Kirill Petrenko conducts Sergei Rachmaninoff), we 
selected a relatively transparent paper to evoke a feeling of 
simultaneity."  "With Jorinde Voigt, we used this idea of working with 
very thin paper for the first time, the type often used in Bibles – also 
a kind of quote. This way, the CD box becomes a complete composition."

Actually it becomes something where appearance is more important
than content.