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For this month’s Music & Design column, we asked our Twitter followers and Facebook fans to tell us their favorite music album cover designs so that the best answers could be rounded up and featured on the blog. Here are the top seven!
1. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
“Simple, powerful art and copy. Abstraction of a deeper meaning of what it actually represents.” — @construct
Oh how I love these notebooks by Bold Ideas! The concept is so simple, yet so clever. The designer uses the color inspiration of different beverages and applies them to notebook covers. The “Nutrition Facts” labels aren’t so bad, either. I want to collect all of these just to admire them.
Want to see what’s happening over on Art Milk? Here is a peek at the most popular posts from February 2010:
From top left, clockwise: fun posters from Haniboi, My Heart by David Foox, recycled sculptures by Sayaka Kajita Ganz, distorted self-portraits by Sally Dennison.
Nothing like an oversized wig stand-turned-sofa to put you in a good mood on a Friday afternoon, right?
Designed by Gert Vanhoeven, this sofa is an homage to Andy Warhol (can you see the resemblance?) made from German sheepskin. I’m not quite sure how you would lounge on this, but I’m sure you can come up with some very creative positions.
You and Me, The Royal We is a new line of work from Digby & Iona’s Aaron Ruff, author Oliver Jeffers, and animator Mac Premo. The work in this line consists of things the designers think are cool but don’t exist yet. This concept seems so awesome to me because I think of I-wish-this-existed stuff all the time and it’s nice to see that other people do it, too.
The map pictured above is a hand-drawn map by Oliver Jeffers that comes with black pins in addition to one red pin (for the current destination) and one blue pin (for the next target). Other works in the line include “All Occasions Cards” that say common short phrases for interaction, a belt with a buckle that looks like tree bark and pencils with a clever and witty label.
When I think of axes, I usually think of ax-wielding murderers. When I see these axes by Best Made Co., I think of ax-wielding murderers dressed in classy tweed suits, super hero costumes or clown clothing. Just look at the polka dot handle design! An ax murderer using this ax has to be a clown (which makes it a bit more creepy, if you hate clowns).
Customization and options are awesome! People love having color options for their iPod nanos, designing their own skins for their laptops and much more. Now, you can do the same with 100% recycled paper notebooks thanks to Scout Books. You also have an option to purchase ready-made designs in three-packs. I’m definitely bookmarking this.
Oh I am in love with this new BLIK wall decal by artist Hannah Stouffer.
I think this jewelry by Swedish designer Hanna Hedman is so fascinating. They were definitely displayed in an exhibition for a reason.
This 2010 calendar designed by Beto Janz uses different colors to identify days of the weeks.
