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Alex Steinweiss The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover

Kevin Reagan , Steven Heller
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07.03.2024
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The inventor of album art
“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 Steinweiss

Alex Steinweiss (1917–2011) 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 Steinweiss’s personal recollections and ephemera from an epic career, as well as insightful essays by three-time Grammy Award–winning art director/designer Kevin Reagan and graphic design historian Steven Heller.

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Dane bibliograficzne / Bibliographische info
Rodzaj (nośnik) / Produkt-Typ książka / Buch
Dział / Departement Książki i czasopisma / Bücher und Zeitschriften
Autor / Author Kevin Reagan , Steven Heller
Tytuł / Titel Alex Steinweiss
Podtytuł / Untertitel The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover
Język / Sprache angielski
Wydawca / Herausgeber Taschen
Rok wydania / Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Rodzaj oprawy / Deckelform Twarda z obwolutą
Wymiary / Größe 14.5x20.0
Liczba stron / Seiten 552
Ciężar / Gewicht 1,32 kg
   
ISBN 9783836557764 (9783836557764)
EAN/UPC 9783836557764
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