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Music & Entertainment Design
Award-winning music and entertainment from the GDUSA Design Awards, with the firm and the designers credited on every project.
42 award-winning projects
Music packaging sells an experience the buyer can already stream for free, so the object has to be worth owning. The designer gives a record a face and a physical form that match the sound, on a budget that fits in a sleeve. The winners here look like the music sounds. Jacob DeGeal laser-cut a CD package for Ian Power's Ave Maria so the object comes apart the way the piece does, and Little Lady Studio leads the category with three wins. The best music and entertainment designers in the awards are on this page. Open any project to see the package and learn how it was made.
Notable winners
- Paul Metsa Songs of Resistance & Resolve CD Packagingby Visual Harmony · 2026
- CD Packagingby Jacob DeGeal · 2025
- The Abyss EP by Fehrplay & Akronby Now Now for Tenet Recordings · 2024
- Bose Headphone and Speaker Packaging Systemby Enlisted Design for Bose · 2024
- Non-Solo Sarang Vinyl Coverby Shantanu Suman for Non-Solo · 2024
- Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin McLaren Edition Packaging Designby Masimo Corporation for Bowers & Wilkins x McLaren · 2024
2026
Paul Metsa Songs of Resistance & Resolve CD Packaging
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Visual Harmony
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2025
CD Packaging
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Jacob DeGeal
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2024
The Abyss EP by Fehrplay & Akron
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Now Now
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2024
Non-Solo Sarang Vinyl Cover
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Shantanu Suman
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2024
Bose Headphone and Speaker Packaging System
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Enlisted Design
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2024
Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin McLaren Edition Packaging Design
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Masimo Corporation
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2023
Poetica CD Design
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Spit + Image
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2023
Sentimental Junk Album Design
Music & Entertainment
Firm
John Kallio Graphic Design
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2023
MamaAfricaAlbumArt
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Little Lady Studio
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2022
Let’s Whisper – The In-Between Times LP
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Routhier Design Group
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2022
Hyper Hollow Heaven LP Album Cover
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Comiti
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2022
Gauger + Associates New Year Playlist Album Cover
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Gauger + Associates
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2022
Pokemon 25th Anniversary Artists Kit
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Ten Gun Design
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2022
Kalo Shore Ele Lindaito Album Art
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Little Lady Studio
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2021
Chopin O Brilho e a Sombra CD Packaging
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Steers Studios
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2021
Mercurial
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Stephen Zhang
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2021
The Prelude Album – Ja1da
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Ylimay Zavala
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2020
A Total Loss of Memory, LP
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Sharon and Guy
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2020
Rolling Stones Let It Bleed (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Music & Entertainment
Firm
ABKCO Music & Records
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2020
CooperGroove Drum Sticks Packaging
Music & Entertainment
Firm
One Zero Charlie
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2020
Beacon CD Packaging
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Southpaw Design Co
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2020
ROKU Special Edition Promotional Packaging
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Miskowski Design LLC
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2019
AIRBUS - Game Day Traffic
Music & Entertainment
Firm
BIG BOX-LITTLE BOX
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2019
You Complete Me
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Asurion Creative Solutions
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2019
Your Personal Financial Primer Book Cover
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Steers Studios
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2019
American Garden CD Packaging
Music & Entertainment
Firm
John Kallio Graphic Design
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2018
Digable Planets Album Cover
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction
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2017
Voice of Maasai ft. Nemaa Koshuma Album
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Little Lady Studio
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2017
New York Women’s Surf Film Festival
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Shanti Sparrow
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2017
T.R.I.P. Album Release Beer
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Adam Ritchie Brand Direction
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2016
Phone Desk Speaker Docking Station
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Drake Graphics Group
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2016
New Hire Welcome Box
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Ticketmaster
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2016
Chasing the Clouds Away
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Slick + Slicker Designs
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2016
The Illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Fall River Press
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2016
NACDL CLE 21st Century Evidence DVD Package Cover
Music & Entertainment
Firm
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
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2016
NACDL CLE Federal Forfeitures 101 DVD Package Cover
Music & Entertainment
Firm
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
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2016
Bee Microphone Series (4 Piece Group)
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Neat Microphones
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2015
Martin Strings Packaging Rebrand
Music & Entertainment
Firm
C.F. Martin & Co.
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2015
DJ Geno Noyola/Fragments
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Guy Villa Design
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2015
Shure SRH 144/145/145m+ Portable Headphones
Music & Entertainment
Firm
MiresBall
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2015
The 442s Packaging and Collateral
Music & Entertainment
Firm
Husbandmen
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2015
Boardwalk Empire Volume Three: Music From the HBO Original Series
Music & Entertainment
Firm
ABKCO Music & Records
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Common questions
- How many music and entertainment projects have won GDUSA awards?
- The gallery holds 42, from 2015 to 2026. Each one is listed here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms have won the most GDUSA awards for music and entertainment?
- Little Lady Studio leads with 3 winning projects, ahead of John Kallio Graphic Design (2), Steers Studios (2), ABKCO Music & Records (2), National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) (2). The full ranking, with each firm's latest winner, is on its own page. Best Music & Entertainment firms, by award wins.
- Which clients are named on award-winning music and entertainment projects?
- Clients named on this work include Geno Noyola, Voice of Maasai, AIRBUS, Bose, Bowers & Wilkins x McLaren. The firm that entered the work named the client, so the credit is theirs. Work an in-house team made for its own company does not count as client work.
- How do I enter music and entertainment work in the GDUSA awards?
- Entries go through the GDUSA entry platform. Past winners in this category came through the American Package Design Awards and the American Graphic Design Awards. A single entry costs $120 as of October 2026, and packages bring the price per piece down to $400 for ten to twenty entries. Winners who publish get a project page here with full credits, and publication is the paid step. How the awards work.