Showing posts with label album covers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label album covers. Show all posts

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Groove is in the Art "...celebrates the era when psychedelic graphics and pop art met the mainstream on classical, instrumental, and children’s album covers in an explosion of line art and color."
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Related: Today's Inspiration on "The Funny, Funky Days of the Early 1970s"
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Record Covers: Cocktail Capers

Cover design by Robert Guidi (ca 1951).

From Piet Schreuders Flickr set Vinyl.
Via Words & Eggs

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Album Covers: Unknown Pleasures (1979)

Yes, this is the CD cover; go here for the album.

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures: "The front cover image comes from an edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, and was originally drawn with black lines on a white background. It presents successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered.../... The image was suggested by drummer Stephen Morris and the cover design is credited to Joy Division, Peter Saville and Chris Mathan."
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Album Covers: Lille Gerhard





The top two (EP) covers, made by Ulf Gustafsson, were found at LP Cover Lover and the bottom one at Farbror Sid.

"Lille Gerhard", who also called himself "Little Gerhard" when he sang in English, was one of the first Swedish "rock" singers in the 50s. Listen to Lille Gerhard at Sid's!
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Illustration: David Stone Martin part 2

From LP CoverLover (slightly cropped)

In his article "For the Record" about David Stone Martin in Today's Inspiration Leif Peng says "From my research on the net, it appears that DSM went on to create approximately 400 album covers!". I've posted before about that great article where you'll find some fine examples of David Stone Martin's album cover art.

Peng has also written other articles on Stone Martin making it clear that though being a very productive album cover artist Stone Martin was not only that.

- Today's Inspiration: The Art of the Inked Line: DMS
- Today's Inspiration: David Stone Martin: Early Days
- Today's Inspiration: David Stone Martin: Modernism meets Traditionalism
- Today's Inspiration: David Stone Martin: "Bending a wire"


From Leif Peng's David Stone Martin Flickr set (slightly cropped)

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Below - a few other nice places to find his work, not only record covers:

- LP CoverLover's David Stone Martin category
- Birka Jazz shows a large collection of jazz covers by David Stone Martin
- Fox Music Company's Flickr: The Art of Jazz - David Stone Martin Record Cover Art
- ArtCyclopedia links to his Covers for Time Magazine and art work made during WW2
- Vinyl Culture Quarterly has more vinyl covers
- Dawger: DAVID STONE MARTIN
- Oscar Grillo Oscartoons: David Stone Martin (a few nice drawings and covers)
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Album Covers: Are You Ready For New Year? #2

Original non-photoshopped album cover here.

Nina Persson - "Song for the Leftovers"

Hey man! I can see you've listened and fixed a nice tux but there's still something missing for the New Years party... Bummer!
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Album Covers: Face To Face

The Kinks - Face to Face, 1966, Album cover artist: ... (?) If anyone knows for sure please let me know.

"Sunny Afternoon"
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