Tag: Typography

Typography and the Album Cover

Enoch Light. Discotheque, 1964. Designed by George Giusti.Book design is not the only casualty in the rush toward digitization. Cover design in the music world has been  pretty much relegated to a thumbnail image for a digital download or an image for a CD case but back in the heyday of the LP the cover design was a vital component to the accompanying music.Over at psd tuts+ Sonali Vora takes on a trip through 50 Years of Typography in Album Covers. With examples from the 1960's up to the present we get a vivid reminder of what we are losing in the...

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