Blue Note Style
ブルーノート・スタイル / 1955–1967 / Style / Music Graphics
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.
Grainy monochrome photographs / Two-color economy / Bold cropping / Improvised type layouts
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Reid Miles / Francis Wolff's photographs / the lineage of label aesthetics