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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.
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.
This 2010 calendar designed by Beto Janz uses different colors to identify days of the weeks.
San Diego-based creative company Holiday Matinee (a company I also intern for) has published their first book, I Swear to Good You Are God At This. It’s as inspirational as it is fun to flip through! The book is a compilation of awesome creative work and ideas by people who do what they love and love what they do. If you’re interested in purchasing 72 pages of creative inspiration, head over here.
In addition, a book launch party is being thrown to bring the book to life with art installations, performances, interactive presentations and more. If you’re lucky enough to be a San Diego native or if you’re willing to trek down from any nearby city, please feel free to join us.
What: I Swear to Good You Are God at This Book Launch Party
When: Thursday, February 18, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Where: BASIC, 410 10th Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Age Limit: 21
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Carolynn Giordano runs Two Brunettes, a graphic design company based in Syracuse, New York where she designs custom stationery, invitations, and greeting cards. She also manages the company’s Etsy shop and a blog.
6:20 AM: Our gray cat Chaplin is doing his wake up dance around my head, but I fall back asleep for 20 minutes until I hear banging on the kennel door. Our dog Maromi is my personal alarm clock.
6:45 AM: I get up. It’s so sunny out!
This month, Insound takes a detailed look at a few of their current favorite album cover designs.
Ganglians – Monster Head Room (Weird Forest/Woodsist)
Not only has Ganglians’ album Monster Head Room captured our musical hearts with its perfect mix of sunny vocal harmonies, garage fuzz and touch of African guitar work but the accompanying illustrations by Tony Fauci seem to have hit on our design fancy as well. Fauci’s illustrations are playful and plentiful with the real brilliance being the sum of the album’s parts here. The front cover sets the hook but when combined with the vivacious gatefold center spread and accompanying 7” it makes a pretty great package. The addition of the 7” seems a bit unorthodox at first but since just two tracks from the CD version need to spill over to another disc it seems like a fun addition to design a nice accompaniment instead of just pressing the extra tracks to a second 12”.
Bridget Butch, or you might also know her as the always entertaining BB-Blog, is an information architect at Hanson Dodge Creative in Milwaukee. “I love art and design. And reading. And funny things. And very giant or very tiny things. And I think the world needs more pandas, cheese [soft and/or hard] and robots.” If you don’t already love her, you’ll fall in love shortly. Just read on…
THE BOOK project is a research project form graphic designer Isabelle Vaverka.
