[HN Gopher] The collaborative spirit behind Brian Eno's record s...
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The collaborative spirit behind Brian Eno's record sleeve designs
(2022)
Author : prismatic
Score : 28 points
Date : 2023-09-17 19:39 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (eyeondesign.aiga.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (eyeondesign.aiga.org)
| dmoy wrote:
| Anyone else coming from a failed Google search on background
|
| Brian Eno is a British musician
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| Brian Enos is an American IPSC/USPSA competitive shooter.
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| Brian Eno's is the possessive of Brian Eno, but if you type in
| "brian enos" on a smartphone it probably isn't gonna auto
| complete to "Brian Eno's".
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| Both people look, at first glance on tiny thumbnails, pretty
| similar, which lead to some momentary confusion.
| dfxm12 wrote:
| It's good for more people to understand the "scenius" idea. I
| think the lone genius myth is dangerous to beginners who don't
| "get" things, even after a lot of work. Also, I think it's great
| when a popular artist like Eno can give a rub to other artists.
| Another Green World is a great album, and has my favorite album
| cover art of Eno's. It shouldn't be surprising that Thursday
| Afternoon, also by Tom Phillips, is number 2.
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| I do like that the article draws attention to album being a part
| of the experience. No Limit Records album covers certainly had a
| style, and you knew more or less what you were getting into just
| from that, even if you weren't familiar with the artist.
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| Same thing with city pop album art by Hiroshi Nagai. I don't know
| if Nagai was part of the scene, if he was just popular, or if it
| was just something that was expected from fans, but when you see
| an album with his art on it, you kinda already have an idea of
| the music.
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| I've also given albums a spin just based on the art, In the Court
| of the Crimson King, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty
| Version, The Velvet Underground & Nico, etc. Maybe I was lucky
| that these records turned out to be good, but maybe there's
| something to the "scenius" idea - these great musicians just drew
| other great visual artists to them.
| OfSanguineFire wrote:
| With regard to King Crimson specifically, Bill Bruford wrote
| some interesting remarks in his biography about UK progressive
| rock striving towards a _Gesamtkuntswerk_ where the cover
| design was a key element alongside the music.
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| I'm a sucker for inventive sleeve design myself, and my all-
| time favourite for that is the record label 4AD in the 1980s
| and 1990s. That label's in-house design firm 23 Envelope/v23
| produced covers that really complemented the music, and have
| even been exhibited in art museums separate from the music. At
| the same time, there were a few artists signed to 4AD who
| resented somebody else's art appearing on their records,
| regardless of how appealing fans or potential buyers might find
| it.
| lazyeye wrote:
| There is a fantastic documentary released recently on Hipgnosis,
| the graphic design company behind all of Pink Floyd's album
| covers (and other bands like Led Zeppelin, Paul McCartney etc).
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| A great documentary and very interesting to see how the graphic
| design process worked for those iconic albums.
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| Squaring the circle (The story of Hipgnosis)
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| https://www.squaringthecirclefilm.com/
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