I have had 12 reples on the Record Collectors guild website mainly from America!. As follows:
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Post subject: Know any interesting facts linking album cover sleeves? Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 10:29 AM
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I am studying Graphic Design at Leeds College of Art. My latest project is Collection 100. I have photographed and categorised 100 albums from my vinyl record collection. I am trying to find interesting links between Vinyl/album art work i.e. graphic designers/photographers and other more tenuous links.
If you know any interesting facts linking album artwork I would be interested to hear them here.
heyjoe
Post subject: RE: Know any interesting facts linking album cover sleeves? Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 10:57 AM
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: there is some cool stuff in Welcome to RCG the forum dedicated to Record Covers here in the RCG. LPcoverlover.com also has some great stuff.
good luck!
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Post subject: RE: Know any interesting facts linking album cover sleeves? Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 11:27 AM
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Like what kind of link exactly - out and out blagging?
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Post subject: RE: Know any interesting facts linking album cover sleeves? Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 11:45 AM
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I had read in a recent Record Collectors magazine (UK) that Andy Warhol designed some album covers - as I didn't actually buy that particular issue, I can't say for sure which artists or titles he did.
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Post subject: RE: Know any interesting facts linking album cover sleeves? Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 12:56 PM
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The most famous Warhol covers are the peelable banana for Velvet Underground and the zipper for the Rolling Stones. Search ebay for Warhol and I'm sure you'll find some more. David Stone Martin did many great covers, mostly jazz. Francis Wolff did the photography for many great Blue Note label LPs.
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look for the cover-arts done by Roger Dean ...
wicksters Post subject: Re: RE: Know any interesting facts linking album cover sleev Posted: Jan 17, 2011 - 05:34 PM
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The links I am researching include for example Hipgnosis as you probably know designed loads of album covers in the 70's including Led Zep and Pink Floyd, one founding member is Storm thorgerson who is still designing covers eg Biffy Clyro - Puzzle.
Stuff like that however if you actually knew one of the designers I don't mind you blagging(if thats what you mean?)
Thanks
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Blagging = Plagiarism
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Post subject: RE: Cover art lover Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 09:13 AM R.C.Guild-SMR Joined: Aug 24, 2004 Posts: 4804 Location: Jacksonville, FL
Some notable cover art designers not already mentioned would be Marcus Keef, who, along with the incomparable Roger Dean did many a memorable cover design for the Vertigo label in the '70s.
Also, be sure to check out the ECM label. Combined with the music, their design presented a unified aesthetic for which ECM is quite famous. Many of these were designed by Barbara Wojirsch or Dieter Rhem. You can see every ECM cover in this searchable database: http://trovar.com/ECM/ECM.php
You might also check out http://www.matiklarweinart.com/ for some rather stunning cover art for such famous albums as Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and Santana's Abraxas.
The jazz labels Blue Note and Verve also had some great graphic design in the '60s.
oh, and then there's the 4AD label. Lots of gorgeous and unique designs for 80s "alternative" groups like the Cocteau Twins with designs by 23 Envelope.
You'll have to Google these last few yourself. Good luck. Album cover art is a fascinating subject!
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Post subject: RE: Cover art lover Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 10:32 AM R.C.Guild-SMR Joined: Jun 09, 2007 Posts: 3477 Location: The open range of Wyoming
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Read about David Stone Martin. And like metrognome already mentioned, Roger Dean.
Martin is dead, but Dean is still alive and doin' art. He started the Paper Tiger imprint in London way long time ago, and is a fantasy sci-fi illustrator.
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Post subject: Re: RE: Know any interesting facts linking album cover sleev Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 02:28 PM R.C.Guild-SM Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Posts: 1731
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wicksters wrote: The links I am researching include for example Hipgnosis as you probably know designed loads of album covers in the 70's including Led Zep and Pink Floyd, one founding member is Storm thorgerson who is still designing covers eg Biffy Clyro - Puzzle.
Stuff like that however if you actually knew one of the designers I don't mind you blagging(if thats what you mean?) Thanks
Hipgnosis did many, many covers. I like more gritty looking stuff myself, but they've got at least one monster classic in Dark Side....
http://hipgnosiscovers.com/
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Post subject: RE: Cover art lover Posted: Jan 18, 2011 - 05:09 PM R.C.Guild-SMR joined: Apr 24, 2008 Posts: 2308 Status: Offline
one of the more prolific artists in the 50s and early 60s was "jack davis". perhaps the most sought after artist is ed "big daddy" roth, i think all of his were surf rock music so they already sell for hi dollar.
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wicksters
Post subject: RE: Cover art lover Posted: Jan 19, 2011 - 05:12 PM Level 2 Joined: Jan 17, 2011 Posts: 5 Status: Offline
Thanks for all your replies ... I really appreciate you taking the time to help me. If I can post it i will put a copy of my outcome on in a few weeks...
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Post subject: Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 10:43 PM Level 5 Joined: Oct 14, 2003 Posts: 101 Status: Offline
don't forget Peter Saville who designed a huge amount of records for Manchester's Factory Records, including the infamous New Order "Blue Monday" die-cut floppy disk 12" single cover design. Legend is it cost New Order and Factory more to create than they could ever get back in sales. And it holds the record as one of the highest selling singles ever. Meaning they lost a LOT of money on it before a new design/package was created.
http://designmuseum.org/design/peter-saville
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(New_Order_song)
Saville has done some cutting edge record cover design http://webspace.webring.com/people/vs/sabbathgirl1961a/blacksabbathfaqs/blacksabbathfaq5.html
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