Collection 100 -Moving image

The mapping of the research done so far is starting to look too complex so not sure if the original idea will work.  I have been really interested with the graphic designer Barney Bubbles and a lot of the links I have found have been between him and other designers he has worked with or influenced.  


After the moving image workshop I was quite inspired to use this technique somehow.  At first I was thinking of following an illustrated map of his life however  the Vimeo research as provided some other ideas.




As a starting point, I am going to make a video of this rotating record.

In Photoshop I used free transform and kept changing the angle of the image until the image had rotated full circle.

Collection 100 - Peter Saville & Factory records

Unofficial Factory record link


Peter Saville Sleeve designs since 1979 onwards

Nick Knight - Photographer on the band Suede album cover also photographed Massive Attack Mezzanine.


Petter Saville has also worked with Howard Wakefield

100 collection - More graphic designer research

Photographer Fin Costello - Album cover photography -  Michael Jackson,Duran Duran (Retroactive), The Police (walking on the moon), Kiss Alive, Deep Purple, Japan (Tin drum).  Also Ozzy Osborne with Steve Joule (Krusher)


Steve Joule is most famous for being art edtor of Kerrang from 1982 however he started in the Graphic Design business in 1976.  He phoned Barney Bubbles and asked him to look at his work.  Barney passed him a tour programme brief for ..... Blondie!  He then went onto design tour programmes and album covers for Motorhead, Ozzy Osborne a, Japan and many others. 

Worked with Hugh Syme on Permanent Waves by Rush. Hugh Symes website

 

Link Def Leppard Reto active Photographer Nels Israelsen

Nightmare on wax  - Ian McMillen (monkee) and Mike Flower all proved quite elusive on the net.  the only link i can find is one to Intro through another Nightmare on Wax album Mind Elavation . Pretty groovy album art work but cant find out who design it...

Farrow Design

Famous for the Spiritualized Ladies and Gentleman floating in space. Worked with Manic Street Pteachers, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue, Orbital, William Orbit,  Mark Farrow designed for Factory Records in early 80's so acn link to Peter Saville.  Mark farrow and Blue Source have used Rankin photos in their work.  Blue Source used Rankin photos for Pulp Different class.

Farrow used John Ross for photographs

collection 100 - Mo Wax, Swifty, Futura 2000, Ben Drury

More links between record companies, graphic designers and artists

Swifty A graffiti artist

Swifty went to The Face with Neville Brody In the late 80's

Met James Levelle at Mo Wax in the 90's

Futura 2000 designed the Mo Wax label.  Futura 2000 went on tour with the Clask and id Graffiti art while they played live in 1981

Art director at Mo Wax was Ben Dury who went on to design album covers for Money Mark - Push the button , turn Breaks and Dizzie Rascal

Mo wax album covers:

Ben Dury

Simple but effective- this iamge made me think about Visual Language!

collection 100 - Product/maps research

One problem which has occurred to be that some albums are linked several ways.  I was thinking maybe a road map then had another idea of how to present the poster taking inspiration from Patterson's Great bear  tube map below:

The main station circle could be "vinyl' and each pint could have an album cover/ designer.

 The Royal shakespeare did another simpler version below:

Underskin map of the body

Sony walkman ad

London tube animals

Geographically accurate map

London Skyline map

Kennedy & Castro ad

collection 100 - more websites links/Record Collectors Guild

BBC on designers

I have had 12 reples on the Record Collectors guild website mainly from America!. As follows:

wicksters 

 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.

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 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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  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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 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 ...

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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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 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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 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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 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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 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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 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

Collection 100 - Barney Bubbles, Peter Saville, Malcom Garrett & Neville Brody

Barney Bubbles 

Reasons to be cheerful a book about Barney Bubbles written by Paul Gorman with an essay by Saville and forward by Garrett.

In search of Barney Bubbles An article from 2001 in Eye magazine written by Julia Thrift


NME article Barney Bubbles Obituary

John Coulthart blog linking Vertigo records, Barney Bubbles, Hipgnosis, Roger Dean, Marcus Keef (Black Sabbath), Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett.

'So where does Barney Bubbles fit in?
1) He was one of a number of designers working for Vertigo in the early Seventies. Marcus Keef produced many of the covers for the folky/prog side of things while Hipgnosis and Roger Dean were among the other talents given an early start by the label. There are two covers credited to BB under his Teenburger name, the first album by Cressida in 1970 and, more significantly, Gracious! by Gracious, also 1970. The stark simplicity of the latter’s giant italic exclamation mark runs counter to anything else on the label at that time.
2) The Gracious! design is printed on bubble-textured card while the white areas of the Autobahn design are embossed onto the sleeve. Texturing isn’t unique to the Gracious album, however, so this factor is circumstantial. Vertigo’s designers used a number of elaborate effects from die-cut sleeves to packaging which opened out to a much larger size, a trick BB famously used later for his Space Ritual and Armed Forces sleeves. Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality album was designed by the Bloomsbury Group and that cover uses a similar embossing.''


The Bloomsbury Group is quite difficult to track on the internet.  (keeps referring to early 19th century group pf artists and writers).  I have found Geoff Halpin worked with the Bloomsbuty Group.

Some more from John Coulthard blog

#22 posted by Malcolm Garrett   Feb 20th, 2007

I do indeed hold Barney in the highest regard – hello Norman! ;-) – and always cite him as the single biggest direct influence on my own work designing sleeves in the late 70s.
I have written (quite briefly it must be said) about his influence in both Graphics International and Dublin’s Hot Press magazine amongst others.

I was particularly influenced by the ‘attitude’ of his work for Hawkwind, not just for the sleeves themselves but for the attention to all aspects of their visual persona. That was certainly something I endeavoured to bring to bear with my Buzzcocks work. At that time I even had the opportunity to work with photographer Chris Gabrin who had worked with Barney a lot during the Stiff days (eg Elvis Costello -This Years Model with the fantastic off register ‘wrongly’ trimmed slleve) – there was a small circle of creative talent that all worked together then, and credit must be given to Head of A&R at UA Records, Andrew Lauder both for signing great bands to that label, and his subsequent labels Radar and then F-Beat (in partnership with Jake Riviera of Stiff fame), and for always giving space to Barney to deliver of his best with all those fold out sleeves, and elaborate extra booklets and posters etc. Credit must also be given to his loyal and dedicated assistant, Pauline (aka. Caramel Crunch) who worked with him at least from 1978 onwards.

I am always on the lookout for Barney’s sleeves in second hand stores, trying to build up my ‘collection’, both before and after Hawkwind sleeves. He was extremely prolific and did lots of low budget jobs for the many friends he’d made in the West London music world. An early one which I’m fond of and that shows his inventive and witty figurative illustration style is for Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers.

I’m not sure if the tax demand reason for his ultimate depression and death is actually anecdotal or not, as he apparently often went off to the West Country on ‘retreat’ to get away from the daily pressures of work. It’s certainly true that on one of those last sleeves (can’t recall which one) his design credit was his VAT number, as a wry comment on those demands.

I was honoured to meet him when I worked briefly at Radar records in 1978, officially as his sort of ‘relief’ designer. Andrew Lauder, who had signed ‘my’ band Buzzcocks to UA and subsequently left to form Radar as noted above, thought it would be good idea to take some pressure of him by having me do much of the design work for lesser signings whilst he concentrated on producing great work for Elvis Costello (eg. Armed Forces) and Nick Lowe.

As well as Rick’s article in Eye magazine, there was also a couple of pages in The Face circa 1983 shortly after his death.

The exhibition that Rebecca and Mike staged at Artomatic Gallery (about six doors down from where I am now writing in fact) was particularly good as it focused to a great extent on all his counter-culture defining work just before Hawkwind ‘took off’. I was happy to see included one of the original Hawkwind painted amplifiers, still with (apparently) a healthy coating of suspicious white powder on the insides where presumably Lemmy’s legendary narcotic requirements were stored and transported when on the road.

Hey, Norman, it seems we should be reconsidering that publication we talked about a year or so ago…http://www.malcolmgarrett.com/

Malcolm Garrett went to Manchester poly when Peter Saville was there and worked at Radar records.  He designed Duran Duran Rio which was illustrated by famous 80's illustrator Patrick Nagel.

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An article in the WIRE

Kraftwerk: Autobahn (Vertigo) 1974 (uncredited designer)

Having grown up with the record collections of my two older brothers, I didn’t start collecting records of my own until my late teens. My friend Malcolm Garrett [of Assorted Images] introduced me to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn in 1974. I was so impressed with the 30 minute title track that I had to have a copy of my own. Not only did the music have a profound influence on me, the sleeve made a lasting impression – the appropriated road sign symbolising the excitement and romance of travelling through Europe. It was my introduction to semiotics, and inspired a use of visual codes that I would develop later through Factory Records. Peter Saville was house designer at Factory records during the 1980s''


Neville Brody  - Research Studios




Neville Brody BIO



Neville Brody and Fetish records