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Wednesday 10th March 2010
For more than 50 years, Phil Stern has captured images that we now recognize as iconic and familiar. The late Norman Granz of Verve Records commissioned Phil to photograph an endless stream of Jazz greats. These sleeves show Stern’s remarkable photographs paired with sophisticated typography, or simply the Verve logo. The image of Ella and Louis is particularly arresting and still manages to look contemporary.
We found these old Vivitar manuals while doing some window shopping on eBay. They date from the 1970s and are a great example of strong, simple graphic design with consistent branding.
Before these guys went out in the mail we had some fun shooting them in a pile, and here are a couple of the shots.
This is the latest in our series of mailers this time highlighting the importance of folds in print design. If you are here because you just received one in the post, welcome and thanks for taking the time to stop by!
Blossom Dearie (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz/bepop singer and pianist, famous for her distinctive girlish voice. This is a classic sleeve combining simple type with a brilliant photograph by Charles Stewart.
This is something new we are working on at the moment, and thought at this flat (clue) stage it looked quite interesting. More to come soon.
We love this very jolly print we just picked up in Miami by Mickey Myers. Myers began her career as an artist in Boston in the mid-1960’s, managing an art gallery, running a graphic design business, and creating limited edition silkscreen prints and posters which were exhibited nationally for two decades.