Speaking of David Byrne (we saw him at the AiH show), the former Talking Head has a nice essay on his blog about "Packaging And Music"...
There are those who mourn the vanishing of the nice big cardboard packages that vinyl came in. The format allowed fairly large images, credits, and photos. The usual assumption is that much of this imagery, like music videos, is a reflection of, and extension of, the music creator?s sensibility. As if the packaging and the videos were usually under the direct control of the author. This is absurd...
Byrne looks at albums from James Brown, the Kinks, Snoop Dogg, and Animal Collective in his prediction that the future of graphic design as it relates to music isn't so dire after all. Read the rest here here. Is he right? Is he wrong? I know you graphic designers have an opinion.
