B efore graphic designer Alex Steinweiss , records came in brown sleeves.
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Art and Artists, Paintings, Painters, Prints, Printmakers, Illustration, Illustrators
Art and Artists, Paintings, Painters, Prints, Printmakers, Illustration, Illustrators
Art and Artists, Paintings, Painters, Prints, Printmakers, Illustration, Illustrators
Art and Artists, Paintings, Painters, Prints, Printmakers, Illustration, Illustrators
Art and Artists, Paintings, Painters, Prints, Printmakers, Illustration, Illustrators
Celebrating the life and work of the man whose big idea created a new artistic medium — and sold a lot of records along the way.
A new book celebrates the man who invented the album cover. View the Slideshow.
Given the visual perfection and ubiquity of album covers by designers like Storm Thorgerson and Peter Saville---given the popularity of blogs featuring monumentally bad album covers---it’s hard to feature a time when records came wrapped in plain brown paper like cheap booze or covered in nondescript bindings like business ledgers. Open Culture, openculture.com
Alex Steinweiss - Cover for Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 Image Credit to letterology.blogspot.com
Here’s a name every vinyl collector and aficionado should know: Alex Steinweiss, who singularly created an entire packaging genre. But more on that in a bit. Born in Brooklyn on 1917, AIGA Medalist Alex Steinweiss attended the Abraham Lincoln High School in that borough, where he studied with leg
Steinwiess was born in 1917 in New York. His immigrant Polish father loved music and instilled the same passion in his son. From 1930 to 1934 Steinweiss attended Abraham Lincoln High School where in the second term he entered a special graphic design program taught by Leon Friend and became a fervent member of the […]
Pines of Rome-Alex Steinweiss
A new script font release in three weights, designed in the spirit of the calligraphy of Alex Steinweiss - "The Man Who Invented the Modern Album Cover".
In Steinweiss. The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover, Taschen takes a look at the works of Alex Steinweiss, prolific artist and father of the modern album cover. In 1940, as Columbia Records’ young new art director, Steinweiss pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company …
Raymond Savignac I am starting to think about holidays, and my eyes are already travelling... Alex Steinweiss, Holiday magazine cover...
Before Alex Steinweiss created the first “original” poster-like record album cover art, minimal art and type were printed on the inner record “sleeves”.…
The history of the album cover and show poster begins with jazz. Alex Steinweiss started creating the first album artwork at Columbia Records in the late 3...
