ALBUM COVER HALL OF FAME’S ALBUM COVER NEWS RECAP FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH, 2018, WITH PREVIEWS FOR APRIL.
BY MIKE GOLDSTEIN, ALBUMCOVERHALLOFFAME.COM
The month of March – in as far as album cover art-and-artist-related news goes – proceeded in just the opposite of the traditional “in like a lion, out like a lamb” theme in that it started out slowly but loaded up at the end with new info and articles on exhibitions, profiles, award shows, new books and prints and more on everyone’s favorite topic.
March was also a busy one for yours truly in that I was involved in judging a local/national album art competition, putting on a lecture about album art and artists featuring a display of prints from my own collection and, finally, working to produce all of the materials needed to launch the Kickstarter campaign for my new book project. I’m happy to report that everything went well, with an impressive range of talent on display in the Oak Park Art League’s Artifact 33.3 album art show, a nice turnout of album cover lovers at my March 22nd lecture and my overall happiness with the items that were produced to help me launch my fund-raiser, which looks to launch sometime the first week in April. If all goes according to plan, the project will run for 33 days and, if successful, it should provide me with everything needed to get the new book designed, printed and shipped (along with any special rewards you’ve opted for) before the end of the Summer. If you’re looking for the perfect gift for anyone who is a fan of art and music – and that includes YOU – I do hope that you’ll take a look at the project site via the link I’ll include in a special announcement next week.
As I mentioned previously, the last 30 days has given us much to review in the area of album art and artistry – particularly, in the category of exhibitions (see below) – and, in the summaries I’ve written and via the links provided, you’ll get the details from sources from around the world. Of particular note were the number of international exhibitions on display and/or announced for openings later this Spring, including shows in Scotland, Italy, England, Canada and several in the U.S…these displays approach the world of album covers/music packaging and memorabilia from a number of different angles, so it’s intriguing and exciting to see the passion for this sort of work on display in venues throughout the world.
As always, I ask that you please share this info with everyone you know who are fans of great album cover-related talent and, of course, your comments and feedback are quite welcome.
1) Upcoming, recently-launched/currently running and just-closed show/exhibitions –
a) We all know and love the highly-artistic album cover work of photographer Brian Griffin, so it’s with great pleasure that I can report that there’s a new show of more-recent works – titled Between Here & Now – that’s on display at La Banque Art Centre in Bethune, France – one that features a number of new works taken from his book SPUD (published by Gost Books) that was recently published after Brian’s 2017 artistic residence in that area of the country.
In that some of the bloodiest battles on the Western Front during the first World War were fought only a few miles away from Bethune, Brian was so moved by the area’s history that it inspired him to create images that, in his own inimitable way, illustrated the connection between the land and the “the blood and the bones and the limbs of all (that) became part of the soil.” Writer Eva Clifford provides us with an overview of the display – which is available for viewing now through the 15th of July – in her recent article on the British Journal of Photography’s site – http://www.bjp-online.com/2018/03/brian-griffins-spud-on-the-anomaly-of-potato-growing-in-ww1-battlefields/
Brian provides us with updates on his show via LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6382168208442560512
b) If you happened to be one of the nice people who were able to join me the evening of March 22nd at the Oak Park Art League’s gallery when I presented 25+ prints from my personal collection – and the stories behind how they were made and who made them – I’d like to say “thanks” and hope that you enjoyed your time that night. In addition to the initial selection of prints that were put up on display as part of the opening night ceremonies for the Artifact 33.3. exhibition on March 9th – cover images for records by Supertramp, Aerosmith, the Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa and many others – I brought along another group that included works by photographers Brian Griffin, George DuBose and Storm Thorgerson and designs/illustrations by Cal Schenkel, Jamie Reid, Mati Klarwein, R. Crumb, John Van Hamersveld and several others.
Mike Goldstein lecture at OPAL
2+ hours later, we’d all had our fill and had shared stories about our own collections and experiences (Val Camilletti of Val’s Halla Records even shared the story of the weekend she spent as a Capital Records employee stripping banned cover photos from a certain Beatles record back in the 60s and helping launch the “Butcher Cover” collectibles market!).
As mentioned previously, after receiving dozens of submissions for their Artifact 33.3: National Exhibition of Record Cover Art original album art competition, the Oak Park Art League’s panel of judges – which included local treasure Val Camilletti (owner of Val’s Halla Records), long-time WXRT Program Director Norm Winer, Paul Natkin (one of Chicago’s most-notable rock photographers), me and musician/artist Jon Langford (one of the founders of The Mekons and the alt-country kings The Waco Brothers) – selected what it felt were the best 50 entries from local/outside artists proficient in many areas of design, painting and illustration and displayed the winning entries in the OPAL gallery in Oak Park, IL beginning Friday, March 9th. . These remain on display, along with a number of other rock-themed works of art, until late April, so if you’d like to see them and learn more about the show and the winning entries, please visit their site at – https://www.oakparkartleague.org/artifact-33-3
c) In this month’s list of “there and gone” shows was one that I’d like to have seen – from Friday-Sunday March 23-25 at the Queen’s Park Railway Club in Glasgow, Scotland was a display of works of art and music, curated by artist Ross Sinclair, that featured the work of dozens of artists who also happen to be musicians/musicians who also excel in the visual arts. According to this article on The List (UK) web site by David Pollock, this display does a great job of illustrating a fact long-professed here at the ACHOF, that being that there seems to be something genetic in the make-up of many who participate in the worlds of art and music – something that drives them to experiment, and regularly produce great works, in areas of specialization outside the ones they regularly earn their livings in – https://www.list.co.uk/article/99693-artists-who-make-music-musicians-who-make-art/
I’ve seen these traits on display so often that I was, several years back, driven to produce an article on the topic, which you can find via the link here – https://albumcoverhalloffame.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/musicians-that-also-design-album-covers-a-list-for-fans-of-music-and-art/ Suffice it to say that the trend continues…
d) We can always rely on the talented artist/photographer/gallery owner Guido Harari to present us with a comprehensive and entertaining group show each Spring, and his latest effort, which opened March 20th at his Wall of Sound gallery in Italy is no exception. Called Rock ‘N’ Roll Hearts, it features fine art photos from an impressive collective of shooters, many with dozens of examples of album cover photos in their portfolios, including Merry Cyr, Henry Diltz, Art Kane, Gered Mankowitz, Jim Marshall, Mick Rock, Norman Seeff, Masayoshi Sukita and many others, including Mr. Harari himself. You can find out more about who/what is on display (thru June 11th) on the gallery’s site at – http://www.wallofsoundgallery.com/en/rock–n–roll-hearts-e24
e) The Bowie archive-sanctioned, Victoria & Albert Museum organized David Bowie Is show has now moved on to what looks to be its final exhibition space – the Brooklyn Museum in New York – where the impressive display of costumes (over 60 of them), music, videos, photo and graphic imagery, Bowie’s own paintings and ephemera from his own collection – over 400 items in total – will be available for viewing by fans thru July 15th – https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/davidbowieis
The nice folks at CNET sent a crew to the museum and came back with a slew of images that allow those of us who don’t live in the area an opportunity to tour the items on display at the Museum in the comfort of our own homes – https://www.cnet.com/pictures/david-bowie-fans-you-cant-miss-this-space-oddity-of-a-show/ The show has set attendance records everywhere it’s been assembled, beginning with the V&A Museum in London in March, 2013 but, like all good things, it comes to an end this Summer, so if you’re in the area and are a fan of all things Bowie, be sure to tour before its gone.
f) With Mr. Bowie fresh in everyone’s minds, the fine people at the Morrison Hotel gallery in Los Angeles recently displayed (2/23 thru 3/23) a pretty impressive Bowie photo exhibition featuring work that highlighted a number of aspects of the artists 50-year career- whether in the studio, on stage and as an artist, actor and fashion icon – as seen by noteworthy photographers such as Brian Duffy, Terry O’Neill, Neal Preston, Mick Rock, Masayoshi Sukita and a number of others.
https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/blog/354U1j/BOWIE-Photography-Exhibition–Sale-Now-At-Our-Galleries-February-23—March-23
The gallery’s opening party was attended by a star-studded lineup of photographers and musicians, including shooters Henry Diltz, Ross Halfin and Jimmy Steinfeld and musicians from bands including Circle Jerks, The Cult and Billy Idol’s band, among others. The folks at Music Connection provided us with some photo coverage of the event – http://www.musicconnection.com/david-bowie-photography-exhibit/
g) A recent article found on the Art Daily site helps introduce us to a photo exhibition in Toronto that give us a close-up look at the city’s burgeoning R&B, rap and hip-hop music/cultural scenes. Readers are given a nice overview of a show called Everything Remains Raw: Photographing Toronto’s Hip Hop Culture from Analogue to Digital that’s on display at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, which is serving (for the fifth time) as a venue for the YU-U-UGE Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival (the world’s largest such event, it is said).
According to the article, “The exhibition consists of three sections—Write Now: Intro to the Esoteric, Not Now but Right Now, and Emanate—highlighting the many aspects of hip hop culture including rhyming, breakdancing, graffiti, and DJing” and features the works of a collection of Toronto-based shooters working to capture the scene in the 1990s and early 2000s. You’ll find photos – including a number which have never been seen in public before – from the archives of photographers (many with album cover credits) including Craig Boyko (Kardinal Offishall), Michael Chambers (Divine Brown and Love & Sas), Stella Fakiyesi (Philosopher Kings), Demuth Flake, Patrick Nichols (Rupert Gayle and Dream Warriors), Sheinina Raj (Ghetto Concept and Laurance Tan) and Nabil Shash, and the exhibition will be up on display from now until October 21st. Read more by following these links: http://artdaily.com/news/102901/The-McMichael-presents-photographic-works-of-Toronto-s-hip-hop-culture and
http://mcmichael.com/event/everything-remains-raw-photographing-torontos-hip-hop-culture-from-analogue-to-digital/
While my exposure to the Canadian music scene harkens back to the late 1990s when I was involved with the MuchMusic cable TV network there (partnering with them to bring MuchMusicUSA to American audiences), I have to admit that I knew little about the rap/hip-hop scenes there, so even looking through the McMichael’s web pages on this show was really informative.
h) It started off as an interesting hobby – taking rubbings from the gravestones of notable musicians – but it wasn’t until he’d run out of paper one day 10 years ago and decided to try using the paper sleeve from an old LP that St. Louis, MO-area resident John Wegrzyn hit on an interesting way to memorialize some of the world’s most-notable blues musicians. Now, in a display of his unique album cover-sized rubbings at the National Blues Museum in St. Louis called See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, you’ll find a fascinating selection of John’s works of art based on the carved memorials for a range of blues masters from back in the day to much more recently, including Willie Dixon, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Professor Longhair, Stevie Ray Vaughan and dozens more.
Writing for The Riverfront Times blog, Allison Babka takes us on a mini-tour of the show –https://www.riverfronttimes.com/musicblog/2018/03/16/belleville-mans-gravestone-art-exhibit-ensures-that-the-blues-will-never-die – and introduces us to a man with a passion for gravesites and graphite pencils. The show runs through May 19th, with more details available on the Museum’s site at https://www.nationalbluesmuseum.org/exhibits/traveling-exhbits/
i) Sneaking into this month’s summary on the last day of March was the announcement of the opening of an exhibition on display in the gallery of the Winchester Discovery Centre (in Winchester, Hampshire, UK) featuring a collection of the works for the stage, dance and film by famed illustrator Gerald Scarfe, well-known to album art fans as the talented man behind the visuals for Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
According to this recent article on the Art Daily site (http://artdaily.com/news/103607/Drawing-a-crowd–Gerald-Scarfe-Stage—Screen-exhibition-comes-to-Hampshire ) “Gerald Scarfe: Stage and Screen will feature more than 100 preliminary sketches, storyboards, photographs, ephemera, costumes, set pieces and animation cels” that catalog Scarfe’s contributions to productions from The Wall (1979) to the English National Ballet’s The Nutcracker (2002). Organized by London’s House of Illustration, one of the most-unique aspects of what’s on display are the collections of costumes and props that were used in various live/recorded productions and, of course, an impressive array of Scarfe’s work on The Wall along with the 1972 short film titled A Long Drawn Out Trip (“a stream-of-consciousness piece that reflected Scarfe’s perception of American culture”) that was seen by members of Pink Floyd and then lead to their ultimate collaboration on The Wall.
Specifics about the show – which runs now through June 27th – can be found on the Hampshire Cultural Trust’s site at http://www.hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/event/gerald-scarfe-stage-and-screen-exhibition
j) While its opening is still a couple of months away, I am excited to report the news of a new John/Yoko exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, UK that will include a lot for those of us who’ve always appreciated that pair’s contributions to the world of music-related art. Double Fantasy – John & Yoko is one large part of the city’s celebration of its 10th anniversary as “European Capital of Culture” and will, according to the Museum’s PR, have visitors “taking a chronological journey… the exhibition starts with two unique individuals – a leading figure in the avant-garde art world and a global rock ‘n’ roll star. From a tender first meeting at Indica Gallery in London, it was 18 months later that the album ‘Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins’ was issued. What followed was breathtaking in its rapidity and productivity until John’s tragic and untimely death on 8 December 1980.”
On display during the shows run, which begins on May 18th and will stay up for nearly a year (through April 22nd, 2019), are many items of original art created by the pair (individually and together) such as Yoko’s Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting, Painting to Hammer A Nail and Apple: Acorn Peace, War Is Over and others, along with a selection of hand-written lyrics by John Lennon, including those to songs including “In My Life”, ”Give Peace a Chance”, “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” and “Woman”. There will also be a music room where visitors can listen to the couple’s music and review all of the album art that we remember and love. You can learn more about this tantalizing show on the museum’s web site at www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/doublefantasy while those with a bit of patience for poorly spaced and punctuated overview articles can read more on one found recently on the Music-News.com site – http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/111842/John-and-Yoko-s-story-in-their-own-words-at-Museum-of-Liverpool
k) Noted album cover designers/authors Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz are teaming up with another accomplished (and Grammy-nominated) designer, Sylvia Reed to gather and curate record art show that will be put up at the One Space Art Gallery in NYC at a date TBD. According to the info I rec’d recently from Mr. Drate, the curators are asking designers everywhere to send in their best examples of well-designed record packaging for consideration, with entries due no later than June 1, 2018 to be eligible for consideration for this show.
The show will be called For The Record: The Vinyl Cover Show 2018 and will be the latest in a series of such shows the curators have staged over the years, including a well-received show that took place at The One Club back in 1995 called the “Special CD Packaging Show” (which featured over 100 examples of album art on display) and another show that was held in May, 2004 at the sadly-closed CBGB Gallery built in support of the release of their Rock Posters of the 90s books and which included 250+ posters sourced from 50 different designers, so it’s clear that this team has been working hard for years to share the talents of the artists working in the music business with their fans and collectors of these works.
More details about this show and the folks behind it can be found on their Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/spencer.drate/posts/10156195245043288
If you’d like to see all of the books that the dynamic duo of Drate and Salavetz have authored (21 and counting), here’s a handy link to their author’s page on Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/author/spencerdrate
Of course, I’ll give you more info on this show as it becomes available. Designers, send in your best!
2) Artist interviews/profile articles –
a) One of the music industry’s best-known and often-lauded album cover artists – Neville Brody – has spent the past seven years as Dean of the School of Communication at the U.K.’s Royal College of Art, but as you’ll read in this Design Week article by Aimee McLaughlin, he’ll be transitioning this coming September to a new role as a professor of visual communication – https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/26-february-4-march-2018/neville-brody-to-step-down-from-role-at-rca/
In addition to the many album cover designs he’s credited with over the years, Mr. Brody is the author of one of the design industry’s best-selling books, The Graphic Language of Neville Brody (the second volume published in 1994), which sold over 100,000 copies to become one of the world’s best-selling books about graphic design. In 1989, Brody launched “Neville Brody Studios” and, with cohort Cornel Windlin (a talented graphic artist and typeface designer), the studio took on a number of commissions and successful collaborations with other respected design firms. First renaming the firm Research Studios in 1994 and, most-recently, Brody Associates (http://brody-associates.com/) , Neville and his team have worked on an impressive portfolio of projects for clients in many industries world-wide, including media companies such as the BBC, D&AD, The Guardian, MTV Europe, Paramount Studios, The Times (London) and Wallpaper*Magazine, venues such as Parco (Japan), The Barbican (London) and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) and retail product firms including Apple, Asics, Bentley, Bonfire Snowboarding, Chloe, Deutsche Bank, Dom Perignon, Homechoice, Microsoft, Nike, Salomon, Sony Playstation, YSL and many others. We wish him well as he soon moves on to the next phase of his career in academia.
b) When Public Enemy’s Chuck D teamed with rocket scientist/painter B.E. Johnson back in 1990 to come up with the soon-to-be-quite-memorable cover art for the group’s Fear of a Black Planet record, he’d hoped to drive home the point that that his Black Planet would be both large and cast a big shadow on planet Earth, but someone with Johnson’s special skills realized that it was important to show him how that should only be done in such a way that it’d survive as both a metaphor and a scientifically-correct image.
With a new group of products recently hitting the streets – clothing and accessories – from two hot design labels (Undercover and Supreme) that proudly display elements from the FOABP album artwork in their designs, the folks at the Hypebeast.com site turned to contributor Keith Estiler to turn to the artist to get an updated version of the “making of” story, which is now available on the site via this link – https://hypebeast.com/2018/3/fear-of-a-black-planet-artwork-undercover-supreme-be-johnson
There’s also a nice 90-second video available in which the acclaimed rapper shares a bit about the times and circumstances that compelled him and his music-making chums to produce that record and its visual counterparts – https://www.instagram.com/p/BgMJFN0Hh_X/?utm_source=ig_embed&action=save
c) Back in college, Chuck Sperry double-majored in Art and Journalism and fully anticipated working as a writer/journalist, but a gig as the school newspaper’s cartoonist and the advice/mentorship of a friend of his family (Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters) started him down another path (from Missouri to New York and then San Francisco, one that has lead him to be one of the most-prolific and admired artists working for clients in the music business. Over the years, his screen-printed posters for almost every major act (yes, all of them!) and for The Fillmore concert venue have made clients, fans and collectors very happy with their inspired artwork and quality printing, which also lead Chuck to expanding his design offerings to products including skateboards, concert merch and, as you might figure, several album covers, including ones for Jello Biafra, Social Unrest, Madness and several others.
While he’s presently working on an exhibition opening soon (Heaven of Many a Tangled Hue, at Spoke Art in San Francisco), the folks at Juxtapoz Magazine caught up with him to have him spill some of the details of his career up to this point, beginning with his early forays into the field, many of the influences he’s had (including Gilbert Shelton, William Morris and writer Mary Shelley, among others) and what art this highly-collected artist has in his own art collection.
Profile on rock poster/album cover artist Chuck Sperry in Juxtapoz Magazine – https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/collectibles/the-interweaving-worlds-of-chuck-sperry/
Details of new show at Spoke Gallery – https://spoke-art.com/blogs/news/coming-soon-to-sf-chuck-sperry-heaven-of-many-a-tangled-hue
d) Cover Our Tracks’s Loring Kemp was recently privileged to enjoy a conversation with goth/post-punk pioneer David J. Haskins (AKA “David J”), best-known as the bassist and lyricist for two seminal British bands – Bauhaus and, later, Love & Rockets. While we’ve all been impressed with his musical output, it was these bands’ (often dark) visuals that really helped them stand out from the many bands we enjoyed in the late 70s and 80s, so it is a great pleasure to read more as Loring and David take us all on an historical tour through the art that includes aspects of “Dada, noir and fantasy fiction” – a bit atypical for the timeframe, I think – enjoy this “Kick In The Eye” via the link – https://www.coverourtracks.com/single-post/2018/03/05/Kick-in-the-Eye-David-J-on-the-visual-art-of-Bauhaus-and-Love-and-Rockets
3) Sales/Auctions –
a) An auction to raise funds for the Benefit Shop Foundation in Mt. Kisco, NY will be taking place this coming April 18th that features large-format (6ft. square!) album cover artwork from noted artist Joe Taylor – http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/6071-choice-artworks-abound-at-benefit-shop-april-18
The Texas-born Taylor is perhaps best-known for the mega-scale promo billboards he created to promote new releases inside Tower Records stores in the 1970s and 1980s. What makes this particular auction item even more special is that, as the normal course of business, Taylor took the large masonite boards after they were used and painted them over with new artwork, so this huge re-creation of Buckwheat Zydeco’s Hey Joe LP is a rare remnant of his work, indeed. According to the article, “When the music store closed, it reportedly offered artworks to a select group, including the woman who owned this painting for many years, hanging it in her L.A.-home before moving to a smaller home in New York City.” Taylor has also written a book, Art & Music, that shares the stories behind his billboard artwork.
Since leaving the art/advertising world a number of years ago, Taylor has spent his time as Owner/Operator of the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum – a museum that presents the Earth’s history from a Creationist perspective – in Crosbyton, TX (near Lubbock). He has also put up a display at the museum of the remaining album art paintings he retained ownership of – http://mtblanco.com/2016/03/joe-taylors-album-art/
I’m sure that the winning bidder will be the envy of all his/her/their friends…
4) New Print/Book/Product RELEASES –
a) April means Record Store Day month, and this year’s offerings are truly impressive. Now that the vinyl LP business has busted through the $1 billion sales mark again, musical acts and record labels are much more willing to put the extra effort and resources into these collectible offerings (yes, even the young ones are wanting to have and hold special physical goods). Rather than try to highlight what’s going to be made available, I’ll leave that up to the folks at Goldmine Magazine, who’ve put together a nice summary (with highlights) on their web site – http://www.goldminemag.com/news/record-store-day-releases-list-2018 and in a multi-page spread (pages 19-22) in the May 2018 edition of their print magazine.
This year’s Record Store Day Ambassadors at the Grammy Award winners Run The Jewels, and their special offering is a limited-edition metal box set titled The Stay Gold Collectors Jewel Box, a package that includes an etched 12” EP with custom art, a special turntable slipmat and that box – a handy place to store your most-precious vinyl LPs. Album cover fans will recall that RTJ and artist Timothy Saccenti were the winners of this year’s Best Art Vinyl competition….
If you’d like more info on the releases and Record Store Day (April 21), bop on over to the RSD site at http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases I’m eagerly awaiting the release of a fully-restored – including 3D Lenticular cover – version of Their Satanic Majesties Request on splatter vinyl, available exclusively at an independent record dealer near you.
b) Genesis Publications has begun taking pre-orders on a new book about the recent (June, 2017) concert at Wembley Stadium in London by R&RHOF inductees ELO, done in cooperation with ELO lead/producer/keeper of the flame Jeff Lynne – http://www.genesis-publications.com/book/9781905662524/wembley-or-bust?
The book documents the production, staging and performance by the greatly-expanded (12 pc.) band, which presented the 60,000+ fans with an amazing video/musical/pyrotechnic display, with the star of the show (visually) being their world-famous flying saucer. In addition to the amazing photography and a full behind-the-scenes tour lead by Mr. Lynne, the limited-edition (1,500 total) packages will be signed by Jeff and, depending on the version purchased, will include other collectible items such as vinyl picture discs, custom slipcases/bindings and, in the Deluxe version (only 350 of these will be made), a specially-made ELO space ship cutout/assembly. Last I heard, sales were brisk, so be sure to visit the publisher’s site soon if you’d like to reserve a copy for yourself/your loved ones.
5) Other articles of interest –
a) This year’s Juno Awards were announced on March 25th at 8PM in the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC. If you’ll recall my earlier article on this award show, the nominees in the Album Artwork category were:
EVERYTHING NOW – Arcade Fire – Catherine Lepage & Simon Rivest (Art Directors); COCONUT CHRISTMAS – The Lost Fingers – Geneviève Lapointe (Art Director), Martin Tremblay (Photographer); MECHANICS OF DOMINION – Esmerine – Jean-Sébastien Denis (Art Director & Illustrator), Ian Ilavsky (Designer);FREUDIAN – Daniel Caesar – Keavan Yazdani (Art Director & Photographer), Sean Brown (Designer), Eric Lachance (Illustrator) and STUBBORN PERSISTENT ILLUSIONS — Do Make Think Say – Marianne Collins (Art Director & Illustrator), Ian Ilavsky (Designer), Steve Farmer (Photographer)
And the winners of this year’s Juno Award for Album Artwork were…the talented team of people – Marianne Collins (AD/Illustrator), Ian Ilavsky (designer) and Steve Farmer (photographer) – who produced this year’s Juno Award-winning album cover art for Do Make Say Think’s album Stubborn Persistent Illusions. They were up against some pretty stiff “big name” competition this year, but it’s nice to see that great talent wins out even when it’s delivered from rural Nova Scotia! Our heartiest congratulations go out to the production team, the record label and the musical act, and you can read more about this winning team via the link – https://junoawards.ca/nomination/2018-album-artwork-marianne-collins-ian-ilavsky-steve-farmer/
More to come soon….like I said, there was a LOT of info to sort through this month!
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