Summary
When Philips started producing LP records in 1950, the first Dutch LP sleeves were also created as artistic by-products. 'Cover makers' Leo Boudewijns, Margreet Korsman and Aat van IJperen invited a variety of designers to make designs for the packaging of all kinds of music genres. Promising unknowns such as Cornelius van Velsen, Ger Vink, Emmerich Weninger, Jan van Keulen and Jacques Richez, as well as the already famous Dick Elffers, created a stream of modern, groundbreaking images. Their graphics would define the face of the phonographic industry in the 1950s and 1960s. Leo Boudewijns chose the most striking and characteristic covers from that period. In a personal account he tells about designers and artists, about art versus commercial spirit and about the reactions that the designs evoked. Boudewijns is considered an expert on phonographic history. He also wrote a Whole Art, Silence, recording!, One Hundred Years Around and Reverberation. For this book, 300 covers were carefully reproduced, arranged and explained in full color. A wonderful book for lovers of music and graphic art and for people with nostalgia for the fifties and sixties.
Author: Leo Boudewijns
Dimensions: 23.5 x 23.2 x 1.5 cm
ISBN: 9789059970953 Hard Cover Book