‎BLACK OUTER SLEEVE WITH PINK INNER. Original Die Cut card.  Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark Genre: Style: ,  Year: Notes: Tracklist Released February 22nd, 1980. (1980-02-22) 

The initial sleeve design featured a die-cut grid that revealed the inner sleeve.The album title was simply a sticker on the sleeve front. 

When DinDisc realised that the printers could change the colour combinations every 10,000 copies at no extra cost they decided to do so. The sleeve variations were as follows: 

12 x 12 die-cut grid. Blue outer and orange inner sleeve. 
12 x 12 die-cut grid. Black outer and pink inner sleeve. 
10 x 10 die-cut grid. Grey outer and orange inner sleeve. 
10 x 10 die-cut grid. Blue outer and orange inner sleeve. 

The design of the inner sleeve was also subtly altered for some releases. The first design featured the credits in a black 'L' shape on both the front and back of the inner sleeve. Some releases rotated the 'L' shape 90 degrees anti-clockwise but shrank the type for the credits so they appeared on one side only. 

In 1981 the album was reissued in a standard sleeve that used the color scheme of the 3rd original sleeve variation. In 1984 the album was reissued once again, this time reusing the design fused on the cassette release. 

The inspiration for the original die-cut sleeve design came from a metal grid on a shop door in London's Covent Garden. 

Chester Valentino was a pseudonym for OMD's then-manager Paul Collister.


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 ()  ‎(LP, Album, 1st)DID 2UK1980