Blog: Music design
2 November 2012
Graphic design history to boot
Everything must go when Ian Anderson sells off the contents of The Designers Republic (TDR) archive in its Car Booty Affair in Sheffield.
At what point does the ephemera that is graphic design become collectable? When does a…
22 October 2012
That (postmodern) design smell?
Graphic design Wunderkinder M/M (Paris) have worked with just about everyone in just about every medium: so why not carpets … or scent?
M/M (Paris), aka Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak, might represent that most elusive of all…
24 August 2012
Noted #43
Harry Beck’s beasts, Pentagram fakes it, Art Vinyl, undesirable Harry (Potter) and Design Yatra.
Here’s a random-ish selection of (non-Olympic) things that caught our attention in recent weeks. Next…
22 July 2012
Noted #40
Typecache, marginal Brazil, mags with letters, Malick Sidibé’s studio
Here are a few more links that caught our attention in recent days. Typecache.com is…
9 July 2012
Every which way
Abbott Miller’s iPad app gives a new framework to contemporary dance
Fifth Wall, an iPad app designed by Abbott Miller for 2wice Arts Foundation, presents an…
21 June 2012
Music, flesh and fantasy
When Mati Klarwein’s hyperactive paintings stole the psychedelic show.
Mati Klarwein is best known for a handful of album covers in the very early…
12 June 2012
Sonorama panorama
john l. walters
A French magazine that put a new light (and spin) on musical multimedia
This June issue of French magazine Sonorama includes reports from the Cannes film festival, writes…
29 May 2012
Type Tuesday: West coast ghosts
john l. walters, type tuesday
This Emigre type specimen celebrates a lost era of LPs and recording studios
I once heard someone dismiss a former boyfriend with the put-down, ‘he’s the sort of…
24 May 2012
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
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…