Famous Record Cover Graphic Designers Vaughan Oliver Peter Saville Alex Steinweiss Storm Thorgerson


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	Many CD covers consist of a photograph of the musician with simple typography -- an appropriate graphic solution for the small CD size. Before the introduction of CDs in the mid-1980s, music came on 12-inch vinyl albums, and the larger jacket was a better canvas size for record cover designers to create interesting works of art.
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	vaughan oliver designer for london record label 4AD Vaughan Oliver is one of the most powerful and explosive graphic designers of his time. Most admired for his collaborative energy and imagination, Oliver is one of the most consistently innovative and significant graphic designers to have emerged since the mid-1980s. Vaughan Oliver was a highly influential member of the small group [with Neville Brody, Malcolm Garrett and Peter Saville] that set the stage for a graphic revolution and changed the face of British graphics in the 1980s and 1990s. Oliver's remarkable and unmatched oeuvre as regular designer for London record label 4AD won him an international following among fellow designers and also, unusually, among music fans, who savor his emotive graphic imagery as an essential part of the 4AD experience. His impact was left on the post-punk music industry and influenced a generation of designers exploring the possibilities of type and print.		Vaughan Oliver by rick poynor	Graphic Design for the 21st Century: 100 of the World's Best Graphic Designers includes information about other record cover designers

	peter saville designer of record covers for joy division and new order Peter Saville is arguably the most influential graphic designer of his generation. Best known for his seminal record covers for Joy Division and New Order and as the co-founder of legendary independent music label Factory Records, Saville has created designs for fashion, advertising, and art. His far-reaching designs and character prefigure popular culture: fresh and seemingly familiar, he continues to transform the commonplace into the desirable. "Saville's method, then as now, lies in fixing on a style or look slightly ahead of popular taste. He achieves the sort of ambiguity and complexity of resonance more usually associated with art," writes graphic design critic Rick Poynor in his essay.		Designed By Peter Saville by peter saville Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album by matthew robertson

	alex steinweiss original creator of the album cover Before Alex Steinweiss invented the album cover in 1938, at the age of 23, all albums came in plain brown wrappers. Steinweiss' idea to create a package that would protect the record and that had something visual on the outside to lure the consumer was a huge success; sales of the record "Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart" soared. That simple idea revolutionized the record business and spawned an entire new field of illustration -- album cover art -- that is now inseparable from the product it announces. Steinweiss' covers are still regarded as icons of the genre. He designed them as miniature posters, with eye-catching graphics, distinctive and vivid colors, and creative, playful typography, often incorporating his much-imitated "Steinweiss scrawl" lettering. The Steinwiess style went hand in hand with the golden age of jazz, classical, and popular music dominated by Columbia, RCA, Decca, Victor, and London Records. The most famous and original graphics created by Steinweiss include cover designs for Benny Goodman, Xavier Cugat, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, and Esquivel. The talent of Alex Steinweiss has left an indelible mark on the graphic design and music industries.		For the Record: The Life and Work of Alex Steinweiss by alex steinweiss In the Groove record covers by Alex Steinweiss and other prominent designers/illustrators; by eric kohler

	storm thorgerson designer of pink floyd album sleeves Legendary designer Storm Thorgerson founded the influential 1960s Hipgnosis design studio. He is the creative genius behind some of rock music's best-known and most compelling album covers, including several classic Pink Floyd sleeves. Thorgerson has had five of his cover designs included in the 100 classic album covers chosen by the editors of Rolling Stone magazine.		Mind Over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd by storm thorgerson

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