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Creators: Kevin Reagan, Steven Heller, Alex Steinweiss (Illustrated by)
Publisher: TASCHEN
ISBN: 9783836557764
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 552 pages
On Sale Date: 7/15/2015
Dimensions: 8.1 in H | 6 in W | 2 in T | 2.9 lb Wt
Record collectors and graphic designers rejoice! With this fresh, affordable edition of Alex Steinweisss genius cover art, discover the bold typography and illustration that revolutionized the way music was consumed. This book includes personal recollections of the father of album covers, ephemera from his epic career, and insightful essays.
I love music so much and I had such ambition that I was willing to go way beyond what the hell they paid me for. I wanted people to look at the artwork and hear the music. Alex SteinweissAlex Steinweiss (19172011) invented the album cover as we know it. In 1940, as Columbia Records young new art director, he pitched an idea: why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months its record sales increased by over 800 percent. Over the next three decades, Steinweiss made thousands of original artworks for classical, jazz, and popular record covers for Columbia, Decca, London, and Everest; as well as logos, labels, advertising material, even his own typeface, the Steinweiss Scrawl. His daring designs, gathered here in all their bright combinations of bold typography with modern, elegant illustration, revolutionized the way music was sold. The book includes Steinweisss personal recollections and ephemera from an epic career, as well as insightful essays by three-time Grammy Awardwinning art director/designer Kevin Reagan and graphic design historian Steven Heller.
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