Design firm The Made Shop explains how the making of Son Lux’s new album informed their cover design process: “When Ryan asked us to make the artwork for the new album ‘We Are Rising’ — which he wrote and recorded in just 28 days (as part of NPR’s RPM Challenge in February) — we decided [...]
“…[C]ommercial artist Reid Miles (an avid jazz fan himself) joined the Blue Note to become the label’s senior album cover designer and over the next 11 years, created some of the most iconic covers in music history.”
Last night Alice, Product Matt and I went to a club in Friedrichshain called Rosi’s to do a little “research”. On Thursdays the DJs play a mix of mostly American and British “Indie Pop” and we felt totally at home with a hundred of our closest German strangerfriends.
Berlin.Unlike (an excellent and comprehensive city guide) describes [...]
Although not technically a graphic designer, this week I’m featuring Sun Ra. Sun Ra, aka Herman Poole Blount, was prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his “cosmic philosophy,” musical compositions and performances. In addition to all of this he designed his own covers. I first heard about Sun Ra when looking through [...]
Say what you will about hip hop/urban/graffiti related ‘design’ or ‘art’, but I’m really surprised someone hasn’t made a book about specifically the graphic design within the culture yet. Yes, I realize a lot of this work is ridiculed and unappreciated at design school, but in the end this stuff is a business [...]
Last week’s Jay-Z show at UCLA’s Pauley Pavillion was awesome, because Jay-Z is a pretty awesome dude. But this show was of particular interest to geeky design folk like us because of Jay’s very cool new high-definition screen setup.
When I first saw the screen lit up behind the band I thought, “Wow, that is some really [...]
Okay, so as my first post I was really thinking that I’d have some fully underground, sickeningly unheard of, yet outrageously cool tidbit of music and design harmony. And then Phish happened.
Maybe I should explain. On the weekends I work doing music production, which is an extremely vague term for a somewhat less vague job. [...]