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linear madness and crazed impulses
Jesse Marinoff Reyes: The Village Voice January 4, 1994 issue Illustration: J.d. King (b. 1951) Art Director: Jennifer Gilman Design Director: Robert Newman …as in the past few posts I’ve drawn attention to, an illustrator I’ve known and worked with … Continue reading
back to brown paper bags
Before the late 1930′s record albums were said to have resembled tombstones: plain brown sleeves with the name of the artist stamped onto the cover.Then came a new direction, the formation of a new axiom that was not always true, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.m. cassandre, adrian dannatt, album cover art, alex steinweiss, alexey brodovitch, bob cato, dave brubeck, Helen Levitt photography, Janis Joplin, jim flora, Mati Klarwein, neil fujita, Robert Crumb, rudolph de harek, s. neil fujita, Steven Heller
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cover the musical metaphor
Context is almost everything.And when the two are in harmony you have a magical visual language… He was one of the pioneers in creating the record album cover; an artistic approach to packaging beginning in 1939, that incorporated free-form design … Continue reading