by Carissa Kowalski Dougherty and it rather a very helpful read.
I got it as an e-book through Quest and it may be in print but I haven't found it if it is.
From reading this I have found out a bunch of good things, and things that I wanted to research further; and that's what this blog post will be about. One thing that the essay spoke about, which seemed very important to me was about specific designers in the 50's that I hadn't already looked at.
They are not as important as other things. but they certainly help set the context of the era very well.
Firstly we have, possibly one of the first record designers and he is quite notable in the field Alex Steinweiss.
Alex Steinweiss basically invented the album cover whilst working as the art director at Columbia Records; and almost any record design could be linked back to him. Not only did he create the first fully designed record sleeves, he did them with great style and a strong focus on typography.
Secondly, we have David Stone Martin
David Stone Martin was also a very famous designer working in the field of record sleeve design; and just like Reid Miles and Alex Steinweiss; he worked in on mostly jazz records, helping shape the industry and design alike.
The essay informed me of much more, and I will explore them in later posts; but for now I thought it was important to show the research I had made into designers working in the field of record sleeves and more importantly designers that were working on jazz records.
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