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May 29, 2009

Tenor Saw “Pumpkin Belly” (via Bones Magazine)

Dubby reggae + awesomely trippy visuals = TGIF!

April 16, 2009

Dave Hendley, writer on Jamaican music and art director of many a CD re-issue for Trojan Records, charts his lifelong love affair with reggae.
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.

Dave Hendley, writer on Jamaican music and art director of many a CD re-issue for Trojan Records, charts his lifelong love affair with reggae.

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.