A nice collection of old Decca record covers put together by Erik Nitsche.
Covers of old Decca records
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 4 November, 2009 to the design and art subset
Only losers design record covers after age 30
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 20 March, 2009 to the design and art subset
Peter Saville’s recent talk at a D&AD Q&A session sounds like it was a cracker:
Controversially, for an audience full of designers working in the music industry he said: “No one should be designing record covers after the age of 30″, and “Music covers are not graphic design, they do not communicate anything, they have no [...]
Geo tag your favourite album cover
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 11 September, 2008 to the music subset
Word Magazine album map: find the exact location of the cover photography on your favourite album.
Rocking.
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. [...]
The Many Views of Abbey Road
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 26 March, 2008 to the comment subset
The Many Views of Abbey Road
I spent four plus years in London and never once ventured out to Abbey Road…
The Iain MacMillan photograph gracing the 1969 Beatles album Abbey Road made it one of the most famous album covers ever. It’s such an iconic image that whenever you see a group walking single file on [...]
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 [...]
