Ever since Alex Steinweiss designed album covers for Columbia Records in the 1940s, many famous artists and designers have also designed iconic and stylish album cover art. From famed cartoonist Robert Crumb, who designed Janis Joplins Cheap Thrills album cover to Andy Warhols contribution to the Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers LP, many famous artists have put their talents to work and put an image to the music created by rock and roll bands and artists.
Naked Vinyl Cover Art- Selling Sex And Music
As we continue our look at naked vinyl album cover art, lets explore two other companies who capitalized on the fad and what has transpired since.
Naked Vinyl Cover Art- Selling Music And Sex
Part one
Historic And Controversial Album Covers-part Two
In part one of our article series (one of three) about famous album cover art, we discussed a couple of iconic Beatle album covers and some controversial album covers by other artists. Lets continue our discussion with part two of our series.
Historic And Controversial Album Covers-part Three
In our last of a three-part series about album cover art, lets again examine a few controversial album covers.
Historic And Controversial Album Covers-part One
When CDs were first introduced in the early 80’s, they were the next best thing in the music world. Certainly an upgrade from cassette tapes, CDs conveniently packed the music and artwork into a neat, small package. But one of the major flaws is the lack of cover art you get with a CD, especially when you compare it to the vibrant, lifelike album cover art you get with vinyl records.
Collecting Vinyl Records
The demise of the vinyl record has become a statement all to common in the music industry. Vinyl records were supposed to be a dead music format a long time ago, but have persevered through many technological changes in the music industry.
Alex Steinweiss – Creator Of Album Cover Art
At age 23, the Godfather of album cover art, Alex Steinweiss accepted a job to design promotional materials for Columbia Records. What would happen next would revolutionize the music industry, specifically vinyl records, when he invented the illustrated album cover. A rather obvious, but brilliant, idea was to create a titillating graphic package that would, not only protect the record, but advertise the artist and the music contained therein (prior to this, records were so…
Album Cover Art-Part Two
Album cover art software allows you to explore this pop phenomenon
Album Cover Art-Part One
In 1939, Alex Steinweiss was employed at Columbia Records as the first art director for the company and decided to spruce up and repackage vinyl records. We all know the result, album cover art has become an important part of music and pop culture. (Prior to Steinweisss creative influences, records were generally stored in plain, undecorated packaging).