April 18, 2009
Gold Embossed Digipak & 12” Vinyl Illustration and Design for Sky Larkin Album ‘The Golden Spike’. (via Nous Vous Work)
April 16, 2009
Beyond a handful of names, such as Roy Tomlinson who designed the iconic, and much imitated, Studio 1 logo, the artists who gave Jamaican music such a strong visual identity remain largely anonymous. The casual disregard for design conventions alongside the bold use of colour, typography, and illustration give these graphics a vibrancy that is all too often lacking in our own contemporary imagery with its unhealthy obsession with computer generated perfection.
This is really wonderful.
April 15, 2009
April 8, 2009
Nice article on the recently departed Designers Republic. These guys pretty much ruled my world in the 90’s/early 00’s, based mostly on their excellent work for Warp. This stuff was my first real entry point into graphic design appreciation, so I’ll always owe them one for that. Weird how some of these images look really dated now, but seemed so crazy, bleeding-edge futuristic at the time. A lot of it still looks great though — the image above, the Warp 10 artwork, etc. They’ll be missed.
April 1, 2009
Following up on this post, I can now confirm that these do indeed look awesome. Just got my copy of the BT one, and it is a thing of truly great beauty. We got the red and white swirl vinyl color we were hoping for, and the sleeve is made of recycled old Sub Pop posters. There’s also a coupon for free downloads. Awesome. Record Store Day is April 18th, at which point you will be able to buy this thing in (and only in) a real, actual record store. BE THERE!!
March 5, 2009
Hermas Zopoula - “Espoir” @ MBV
Now that is some damn fine looking cover art.
January 28, 2009
These Are Powers - “All Aboard Future” @ MBV
Not sure how I feel about the buttcheeks on the right, but I do like this cover art. Hey, two cover art posts in a row! Neat.
January 27, 2009
Really liking the above cover art for this David Rubato 12”. Apparently the designer is a group/person called House of Kids. I’d be curious to see more of their stuff — but I’m guessing these are the wrong kids.
January 14, 2009
Lovely cover art for this Populous With Short Stories album on Morr Music. Morr continues to have one of the nicest house design styles of any label I know.
December 25, 2008
Mario Hugo, unpublished sleeve for Beck’s Modern Guilt (via FADER)
They should have used this one.
August 21, 2008
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Bill Diakhou - Tani
Bill Diakhou “Tani”
Senegalese hip-hop BANGERS. Well, at least tracks 1, 2 and 6. Anyone who raps that hardcore over a kora and an 808 gets high marks in my book (see track 5).
I love the internet!
August 19, 2008
August 18, 2008
Hardformat - Reaching for the sublime in music design. →
Giant pictures of top notch record packaging = new favorite blog.
