Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.)
A couple we didn’t get to for Black History Month. But we aren’t waiting another year. Shouldn’t every month be Black History Month? …
In this case, a 78 RPM album cover—when they actually were albums—of the great baritone (and great at most everything else: athlete, actor, activist), Paul Robeson. Also of note, the designer Alex Steinweiss is essentially the first true album cover designer. Steinweiss introduced a European Modern poster design aesthetic to the form which influenced the medium for decades. One of the true greats of American design.
Paul Robeson
Songs Of Free Men
Columbia Records, 1942
Design: Alex Steinweiss
BLACK HISTORY MONTH- Another Cover of the Day : Bill Cosby received equal star billing as Alexander Scott to Robert Culp’s Kelly Robinson—a first on network television. Groundbreaking, and loads of Cold War-era fun. From the archives, the first of the adaptation novels.
Bill Cosby
I Spy
Popular Library, 1965
Design: uncredited
Photograph: NBC
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