Alex Steinweiss. The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover (Bibliotheca Universalis)
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Graphic Design
Alex Steinweiss. The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover (Bibliotheca Universalis) Details
Review “Alex Steinweiss is credited with singlehandedly creating the format, design and graphic ‘language’ of the album cover.” Read more About the Author Kevin Reagan is a triple Grammy Award–winning art director, also honored by AIGA, Print, and Communication Arts. As former art director of Geffen, MCA, and Maverick, he designed packages for Madonna, Beck, Sonic Youth, and many others. He lives in Los Angeles.Steven Heller is the co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author Program. For 33 years he was an art director for The New York Times, and currently writes the “Visuals” column for The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of 120 books on graphic design, illustration, and satiric art.The father of record design is Alex Steinweiss, who in 1940, at the age of 23, single-handedly invented the album cover. He made thousands of classical, jazz, and pop covers for Columbia, London, Decca, and Everest; and his modern designs graced the packaging, logos, and covers of dozens of distilleries, film studios, and magazines; earning him an AIGA Medal and the Art Directors Hall of Fame lifetime achievement award. Read more
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Beautiful, high quality illustrations.
