Music Graphics

音楽グラフィック

Dictionary entry

  1. Blue Note Style 1955–1967 / Style

    The sleeve style Reid Miles mass-produced for the jazz label: grainy monochrome photography, two-color economy and boldly cropped type — improvisation inside constraint as the graphic translation of jazz itself.

  2. Factory Records Style 1978–1992 / Style

    Saville's practice at the Manchester label: sleeves that refuse to explain the music, borrowing industrial color cards, classical paintings and waveform charts — post-punk's intelligent void made into style.

  3. City Pop Illustration 1979–1989 / 2010s revival / Style

    The urban-resort scenes Hiroshi Nagai and Eizin Suzuki painted for record sleeves — cloudless skies, pools, palms and horizons. Pre-bubble Japan's landscape of longing, made a global shared image via vaporwave.

  4. Hipgnosis 1968–1983 / Style

    The photographic surrealism Thorgerson and Powell's studio brought to the record sleeve — burning handshakes, pigs over power stations — pre-CG trick photography defining the dreams music sees.

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