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This is so great. Project Thirty-Three is a blog/gallery from Seattle’s Jive Time Records showcasing vintage record jackets boasting simple, modernist designs. There’s a resurgence of this clean, abstract aesthetic these days, mostly in the form of pastiche or faux vintage paperback parodies and movie posters. But there’s nothing quite like the real deal, especially because it so reminds us that this look was de rigueur for jazz and classical music. These designs were once on actual store shelves and not just student designer’s blogs.
On the opposite side of the visual spectrum, Jive Time also curates Groove is in the Art, a similar blog devoted to anything-but-minimal pop art and psychedelic album jackets like these:
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These days it seems everyone and their grandmother is embracing modernist design by way of creating their own remixed versions of 1960s paperback covers. And that’s okay by me. The latest: Cover Versions by littlepixel are “classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books.” (via Kitsune Noir)
You may also enjoy:
Retro “I Can Read Movies” book covers
The Pelican Project
Penguin’s Great Ideas
Seriously, how cool is this? For the Muppet Rawk group show, Marc Palm redrew R. Crumb’s famous Cheap Thrills cover as a Muppets album.
See it full-size on Flickr.
UPDATE:
JoeMcDuck in the comments notes that Sesame Street itself actually put out an album called Cheep Thrills in 1994 that also featured a parody of Crumb’s cover.
I love the scratchy lines of David Stone Martin, whose illustrations graced a wealth of jazz records in the 1950s and 60s. The always comprehensive Leif Peng, whose blog Today’s Inspiration remains the greatest treasure trove of illustration history on the Internet, has been documenting the work of DSM in his most recent posts: Modernism Meets Traditionalism, Early Days, For the Record, and “…unusal pictures, vitalized by many strange textures.”
Don’t miss Leif’s David Stone Martin Flickr set.
beautiful stuff all of it! I admire artists who can communicate with such simplicity. My own work is so labour intensive sometimes…
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woo, this is my kind of art. crazy, fun and colourful
it reminds me “Lucy in the sky… with diamonds”
I dont know the art theory behind this work but i guess its awesome
Great post. This reminds me of a time when I lived for crate digging and finding records like this at the flea markets and stores. The top three are perfection and makes me wanna dust off my old “Persuasive Percussion” and “Provocative Percussion” LPs, hiding somewhere in my storage. Thanks again!
Nice- In some of their pieces you can hear the music out of the colors. Wasn't nice in old days you have to look at the cover of a record and them listen to it? What a good connection between visual and music.