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Backspacer is the ninth studio album by the American rock band ... 7,000 of those copies were on vinyl, ... Tom Tomorrow – album concept, album art, layout design;
The Juno Award for "Recording Package of the Year" has been awarded since 1975, as recognition each year for the best album art for a music recording in Canada. The Award was subtitled as "Presented in honour of Andrew MacNaughtan " after MacNaughtan's death in early 2012.
The album art of other musicians has been influenced by Blue Note's covers, including Elvis Costello's Almost Blue (1981), whose cover is an homage to Burrell's Midnight Blue (1963), Van Morrison's The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast (1998), which has a cover inspired by Blakey's Free for All (1965), and Aesop Rock's Float (2000), whose ...
The Grammy Award for Best Album Cover dates back to the first Grammy Awards in 1959. From 1962 to 1965 it was separated into Classical and Non-Classical divisions. From 1966 to 1968 it was separated into Graphic Arts and Photography divisions. In 1974, the name of the award was changed to Best Album Package, and changed again in 1994 to the ...
Best Art Vinyl is an annual award that began in 2005. It celebrates artists and designers of vinyl record cover art . [ 1 ] The nomination process begins in November and the winners are announced in January, [ 2 ] and are exhibited at venues across the United Kingdom and Europe. [ 3 ]
Some featured reproductions of classic art while others utilized original designs. When the 10- and 12-inch long-playing records (LPs) came along in 1948, and box sets of 45-rpm records soon followed (see gramophone record), the name "album" was used for the new format of collections, and the creation of artistic original album covers continued.
In 2009, Oliver designed the Pixies' Minotaur, a 26-pound box set consisting of the band's first five albums, a 96-page fine art book and a 52-page photo book. [16] Oliver stated that, with each Pixies release, he had looked to achieve "a sense of continuity" within the catalog but also employ a "fresh approach", and that his ethos "was always ...
Travis Smith was born on February 26, 1970, just outside San Diego, California.Growing up, Smith had no formal art education aside from a semester in high school.He got his start designing album covers for his friend's band, progressive metal group Psychotic Waltz.