A collection of covers of science fiction titles, published by Penguin Books.
Science fiction book covers by Penguin
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 to the design and art subset
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Albums with controversial covers are album that sell
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 10 April, 2009 to the music subset
Could this be a case of “show me an album without a controversial cover and I’ll show you an album that won’t sell”?
It’s amazing how times change. What would be considered absolutely unacceptable 40 years ago is the norm now. Sometimes I wonder what people will find completely acceptable 40 years from now. Yikes! In [...]
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Roger Waters and Algie the inflatable pig
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 27 May, 2008 to the music subset
A Pig’s Tale: Roger Waters Traces the History of Rock’s Most Famous Prop
Roger Waters talks about Pink Floyd, Battersea Power Station, and the story behind possibly the most famous inflatable pig in musical history, “Algie”, who stared on the cover of Pink Floyd’s album “Animals”
The first day was that beautiful sky, but the pig escaped. [...]
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Cover Stories, Old and New
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 19 May, 2008 to the music subset
Cover Stories, Old and New
It’s not only the quality of music that can decline the longer a recording artist’s career spans, but also the artwork on their album covers.
Early career album covers of Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, U2, and Madonna, are compared with their latest releases, and yes, there’s a definite pattern visible.
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Extending album art
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 16 May, 2008 to the design and art subset
Extending album art
Clever album cover graphics showing what’s happening outside the border of the cover image.
This puts the cover of Oasis’ What’s The Story Morning Glory into an all too obvious context. Bigger than Abbey Road hey?
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Vintage classical album cover graphics
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 15 May, 2008 to the design and art subset
Vintage classical album cover graphics
A very cool, and colourful, collection of vintage, old skool, album cover art.
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Amazing Old Album Covers
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 13 March, 2008 to the design and art subset
Amazing Old Album Covers
While perusing Mark Simonson’s website earlier I spotted this post featuring some very old record (as in the vinyl variety) covers.
Ever wondered why albums are called “albums”? At one time, a record album was literally an album that contained records. A few years ago, I ran across a handful of them in [...]
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