Alex Steinweiss – Creator Of Album Cover Art
Feb 22, 2012
At age 23, the Godfather of album cover art, Alex Steinweiss accepted a job to design promotional materials for Columbia Records. What would happen next would revolutionize the music industry, specifically vinyl records, when he invented the illustrated album cover. A rather obvious, but brilliant, idea was to create a titillating graphic package that would, not only protect the record, but advertise the artist and the music contained therein (prior to this, records were sold in plain, undecorated wrappers).
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Categories: Uncategorized | Tagged: album cover art, album cover design, Alex Steinweiss, Columbia Records, Kate Smit, Louis Armstrong |
