As I look forward to when I actually have my senior picture and real estate photogrpahy/ videography businesses up and running, I know that I will need to deliver images and videos on CD or DVD.
As I continue to work on my business plans for this, I remembered a posting from Jeffrey Zeldman way back in 2003. In it he made some quick comments about the Jewelboxing System from Coudal Partners. For Zeldman to link to something, well, that means it must be pretty darned good. And Coudal is well known as a creative powerhouse. But I had no need for their system in 2003. I wasn’t doing video. I wasn’t doing photography.
All of that, of course, is changing.
So I went back to their site the other day and ordered their sample kit. You get one DVD case (big rectangle, called a “King”) and one CD case (normal square thing, called “Standard”), and the enclosed discs have some additional information on them. They aren’t terribly inexpensive (Kings run at roughly $3 each, Standards at $2, when ordered in small quantities), but they are pretty cases. If such a thing could be considered pretty. But I do like them better than the standard bulk cases with the black backing. I am pretty confident that these are going to be part of my “system” once I get everything in place. You should check them out if you give CDs or DVDs to clients. You just might like them too.
