Blue Note Covers

Some of my favorite design of all time, a collection of Blue Note album covers from Japanese website Vintage Vanguard. That link is just the first of five pages each just chock full of incredible artwork and design spanning from the 40’s to the 70’s. (There’s actually more pages, so be sure to check ‘em all out.)

More links:
Blue Note Records
Photographer Francis Wolff
Designer Reid Miles
Check out the book: Blue Note: Album Cover Art. (get this book - it's one of my favs!)

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Record Envelope - The little library of factory sleeves.

In keeping with the theme of vinyl and albums, I came across this blog a while back that is a wonderful collection for vinyl geeks and graphic artists. Ms Kavel Rafferty's collection of company sleeves. The site is designed and managed by illustrator Kavel Rafferty.

Here are just some of my personal favs - there are just tons of amazing sleeves in there - go see for yourself here

For LP Nuts: The Record Cabinet

Throw away those old milk crates and get ready for a high end designer solution for those of us that not only collect vinyl records but have come to prefer them. Jen Levin Atocha is one of these people, and because she couldn't find a really nice storage solution, she designed and built her one. These record cabinets allow you to super safely store and showcase your LP's by cover and not just by the spine.

These Record Cabinets are pricey but each one is custom built, made of oak, walnut, bamboo or maple and can come in a number of different configurations that will accommodate LP's, singles, CD's, DVD's or components.

As the website says "Milk crates are for milk".

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