The album cover is still a subject of perennial interest amongst graphic designers. Sleeve design remains a popular subject for college theses and many young working designers aspire to design for the music industry. Revealing the state of the art of contemporary music graphics, Cover Art By: is packed with over 400 examples of sleeve art. As well as CD and album covers, the insides of CD booklets and the backs of vinyl sleeves are shown. The book opens with an in-depth essay reviewing the current scene, then focuses on the work of 30 international designers/labels who are the most influential in the field. Also included is a list of important record labels with contact details, making this a must-have for designers and students, as well as music industry professionals and fans.
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Adrian Shaughnessy is a self-taught graphic designer, writer and editor. Until recently he was creative director of Intro, the London-based music design company he co-founded in 1989. He left Intro in 2004 to pursue an interest in writing and consultancy. His previous books include How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul and Look at This: Contemmporary Brochures, Catalogues & Documents
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I picked up a CD the other day. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
I picked up a CD the other day. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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By Malaskar
Format:Paperback
Adrian Shaughnessy is a graphic designer and writer from UK. He realized earlier the creativeness and meaningful of Music covers, so he decided to collect them. After a while, that collection was ready for publishing in 2008, namely Cover Art By : New Music Graphic. The majority of young people keen to work in the music industry through designing and writing, But they need to come up with an innovative work to live with competition. such an inspiration might be found in Adrian book. Because it is contain amazing pieces of cover art works. Belong with that, for each collection, you will find an interview with the designer and brief information for each design.
First designs were mixed of Traditional Art including Typography and Drawing. The designers made them simple but a strong. It gives a feeling that the design is talking to you. Although the covers formed by few colors and sometimes just white and black, yet it focused on symbols. Other designs were categorized as a Digital Art. They are modern and colorful, and they were made by mixing the photos with drawing. For example, Rotten Cocktails covers were made by using the power of active color such as red and orange and manipulatory photos.
Not only that, even the new kinds of Art like Pixels and Vector Art were included in Adrian book. In addition, If you are interested in the weird kind of design, I believe you will find your desire on Ghost Box chapter. You may find it useless and ugly. Nevertheless, it is required from some kinds of music or movies which they classified as a science fiction.
I want to say that Cover Art By : New Music Graphic is a useful for whom work in the designing field. It is worth buying. However, Most of samples inside the book it is just reflect the author taste.... Read more ›
First designs were mixed of Traditional Art including Typography and Drawing. The designers made them simple but a strong. It gives a feeling that the design is talking to you. Although the covers formed by few colors and sometimes just white and black, yet it focused on symbols. Other designs were categorized as a Digital Art. They are modern and colorful, and they were made by mixing the photos with drawing. For example, Rotten Cocktails covers were made by using the power of active color such as red and orange and manipulatory photos.
Not only that, even the new kinds of Art like Pixels and Vector Art were included in Adrian book. In addition, If you are interested in the weird kind of design, I believe you will find your desire on Ghost Box chapter. You may find it useless and ugly. Nevertheless, it is required from some kinds of music or movies which they classified as a science fiction.
I want to say that Cover Art By : New Music Graphic is a useful for whom work in the designing field. It is worth buying. However, Most of samples inside the book it is just reflect the author taste.... Read more ›
By GinnyR
Format:Paperback
Brilliant book, bought it for my boyfriend but I'm thinking of keeping it for a while and having a good look through.
Broken up into separate artists overviews, with well presented pictures of their work. Especially liked the Nouvelle Vague covers.
Only lost a star because the front cover was slightly torn, but you definitely get your moneys worth! Get it!
Broken up into separate artists overviews, with well presented pictures of their work. Especially liked the Nouvelle Vague covers.
Only lost a star because the front cover was slightly torn, but you definitely get your moneys worth! Get it!
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This is a great book. I found it really interesting understanding how label's work with designers.
Adrian Shaughnessy always gets a thumbs up from me!
Adrian Shaughnessy always gets a thumbs up from me!
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