We’ve posted about this work before. But here’s some new releases for it. The Yes/Pandemonium work for PSB is extremely happiness. Yes, poor english. But yes, exquisite design. Have a look at Farrow for more happiness. Hugs.
I’m kind of in love with this new album cover from Tocotronic. In a Saville-esque simplicity, it just rubs me the right way. Listening now to the album and I think the sentiment is spot on. Hugs.
So from unify and digital music to crafted box sets, we all love music. This lovely new box set of three album releases by the artist Duke Special has been designed Sparks, London. It coincided with his recent performance in the Brecht play Mother Courage at the National Theatre London.
The set is now on it’s third production run over 25,000 units, which confirms our suspicion that well designed phyiscal albums are desirable to music lovers everywhere. A screen printed gem on grey board is held with traditional book binding tape. The slipcase is silver foiled on a textured card.
Nic Mulvaney has just released a great app. Unify which allows you to transfer playlists from iTunes to Spotify. Just drag and drop. Enjoy.
We popped our heads around the door of the halcyongallery earlier this week to see the new collection of Bob Dylan paintings. They are based on drawings and sketches made while on the road during the period of 1989 – 1992. It officially opens today until early April. Worth a look.
For some reason, I can never get enough of stop motion. Have a look see. Very nice.
The Beatles ninth album was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organized a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year. Hamilton’s design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake’s vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band’s name was discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album’s right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, “to create,” in Hamilton’s words, “the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies.” Hamilton staked his whole design on achieving this effect: “I suggested a plain white cover so pure that it would seem to place it in the context of the most esoteric art publications. To further this ambiguity, I took it more into the little press field by individually numbering each cover.”
Paul McCartney and Hamilton worked closely together to design both the cover of the album and a poster insert slipped into the double-disc set. The poster insert was where Hamilton spent the majority of his design time. He selected a sampling of personal photos from the Beatles and created a collage only slightly more controlled in feel than if the photos were to be strewn across a tabletop. He explains his process: “Because the sheet was folded three times to bring it to the square shape for insertion into the album, the composition was interestingly complicated by the need to consider it as a series of subsidiary compositions. The top right and left hand square are front and back of the folder and had to stand independently as well as be a double spread together.”
From 1983, yet again, Mr. Saville and amazing. Found while surfing a great site, Hard Format, this just continues my amazement. Have a look see when you get a moment.
This is really old and yes, I am behind the times. But just saw this today and love it. Here is a nice write up at Creative Review about it. But again, Mr. Farrow and friends have done their part to raise happiness in the world.
