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What can we learn from the recent Tiktok ban...?
One day your videos are trending, and the next, your audience can’t find you. It’s a stark reminder that while social platforms are....
Josh Wilhelm
Jan 283 min read
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Judged by the Cover - Unexpected Christmas Albums
In this festive episode of Judged by the Cover, we’re diving into a few unexpected Christmas albums—the ones you didn’t see coming!
Josh Wilhelm
Dec 20, 20242 min read
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Judged by the Cover - Pro Panel - Rating album covers with the pros
Panelists are presented with and judge 4 different album covers, each with its unique story and artistic elements.
Josh Wilhelm
Jun 29, 20242 min read
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Is Cover Art Crucial To New Listeners...?
For musicians, bands, and podcasters, one powerful tool for capturing attention and enticing new listeners is often overlooked...
Josh Wilhelm
Mar 22, 20243 min read
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Judged by the Cover - Music Discovery - Coming Home by The Dangerous Summer
Go on a journey with us as we discover an amazingly fun album and band by doing some curiosity buying solely based on the cover art!
Josh Wilhelm
Feb 26, 20241 min read
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Judged by the Cover - Best of 2023
To kick off this new season, I thought it would be fun to look at some of our favorite album covers, physical packaging, and music from 2023
Josh Wilhelm
Jan 26, 20242 min read
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Can I Design My Own Cover Art...?
If you are a band, musician, or a podcaster...you might be asking yourself can I design my own cover art...? I think my answer might surpris
Josh Wilhelm
Sep 18, 20233 min read
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Judged by the Cover - Cars on Covers
New episode of the Judged by the Cover podcast, with the theme Cars on Album Covers.
Josh Wilhelm
Aug 18, 202313 min read
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Who needs graphic design...?
With all these different options, it can be intimidating to figure out which graphic designer is best for you and your project. I’m going to
Josh Wilhelm
May 25, 20233 min read
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Website Design Process - YWHAG Research Foundation
Website design projects can be some of the most exciting and rewarding things that I work on at JW Creates. In this note I'll share how I...
Josh Wilhelm
May 10, 20234 min read
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Album Cover Process - FACE
Custom album cover process for the band FACE. Check out the behind the scenes process in creating the album cover for the band FACE.
Josh Wilhelm
Mar 27, 20233 min read
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Logo Throwback
Since you may not know yet how much I love creating logos and branding, let me take you back to a few logos that helped shape my process.
Josh Wilhelm
Mar 8, 20233 min read
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Branding Design Process - Land of the Dad
My most common projects are logo and branding projects. Look at my project for Land of the Dad, and let me walk you through my design proces
Josh Wilhelm
Feb 22, 20234 min read
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New Year, New.....Website!
Forget new year, new you... Lets get your brand or business looking fresh and professional with a new website!
Josh Wilhelm
Feb 7, 20233 min read
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Does Cover Art Matter...?
How important cover art is for music in our digital streaming music world. In today’s digital world, we don’t interact with physical albums
Josh Wilhelm
Jan 25, 20233 min read
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Album Cover Process - I Never Knew
One of my favorite things to create, and what actually started this business, is album covers. I love getting to visually communicate the...
Josh Wilhelm
Jan 18, 20233 min read
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Judged by the Cover - Boston Ep.2
Intro When we think of bands, we usually think of a group of guys or gals that start jamming together, writing some songs, they start...
Josh Wilhelm
Jan 9, 20237 min read
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Judged by the Cover - Minorville Ep.1
Intro Welcome to the first episode of the Judged by the cover podcast. Today we are talking about the album cover that started this thing...
Josh Wilhelm
Jan 9, 20233 min read
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JW's "Liner" Notes
I’m sad that I didn’t grow up during the hey day of vinyl records. What an experience it must have been to go to the store and find the...
Josh Wilhelm
Jan 9, 20232 min read
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