Blog: Music design

24 May 2012

Home-made heavy metal

Home-made heavy metal

gareth hague

With no need to be cool, bands happily riff on the visual vocabulary of the 70s
Heavy metal culture has always been on the outside, writes Gareth Hague. Outside cool, outside…

16 May 2012

Wax museum

Wax museum

simon robinson

A collection of Sheffield 78s evokes a forgotten era of music packaging.
Interest in record sleeve art naturally gravitates towards the long-play albums that emerged the 1950s, writes…

11 May 2012

Full tilt

Full tilt

john l. walters

Glass & Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach liberates the space-time continuum.
Though I missed the UK premiere* of Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and…

19 April 2012

Blue notebook

Blue notebook

john l. walters

David Wild’s Jazzpaths is a personal and poetic ‘photomemento’
David Wild’s Jazzpaths is labelled a ‘photomemento’. It is a carefully printed hardback collection of mid-1960s…

23 March 2012

Tiger economy

Tiger economy

the events department

A few images from ‘Making Magazines 2012’ at St Bride Library on 16 March
We all had a great time at the sold-out ‘Making Magazines 2012’ conference, held at…

25 February 2012

Javier & Fernando & Bebo

Javier & Fernando & Bebo

Mariscal’s full length movie Chico & Rita is in the running for an Oscar
As this weekend’s 84th Academy Awards ceremony brings the season of movie awards madness to…

10 February 2012

A bigger splash

A bigger splash

100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design at Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
A major exhibition opens today at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich: ‘100 Years of Swiss Graphic…

2 February 2012

Getting away with murder

Getting away with murder

Good, bad and ugly cover ‘tributes’: a new spin on the death of music design.
The album cover may have lost its mojo as far as contemporary culture is concerned…

29 December 2011

Noted #24

Noted #24

noted

Social highways, a log, visualisation, book dedications & paper ephemera
More links to sites and articles that caught our attention in recent days. Information’s social…

20 October 2011

Historical digital

Historical digital

adrian shaughnessy, historical digital

Adrian Shaughnessey on the rise of laptop aesthetics … from 2003
What are the major stylistic trends in current graphic design? wrote Adrian Shaughnessey in Eye…
 
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