Sebastião Rodrigues

I love the work of this Portuguese graphic artist (1929-1997) who designed the magazine Almanaque, which ran from 1959 to 1961. Influenced by Alvin Lustig and Victor Palla. I came across these covers on Pedro Mosca's pinterest page.

Almanaque Outubro de 1960 | Capa de Sebastião Rodrigues

Almanaque Junho de 1960 | Capa de Sebastião Rodrigues

Almanaque Agosto 1960 | Capa de Sebastião Rodrigues via

II Exhibition of Plastic Arts of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1961

Poster for Enciclopédia luso-brasileira de Cultura. 610mm x 610mm. 1979 via Luis Gomes on Flickr — Poster for Enciclopédia luso-brasileira de Cultura. 610mm x 610mm. 1979 via Luis Gomes on Flickr

Covers from the Herb Lubalin Center collection

Cover of the “Corneille-landmeter” exhibition catalog from the Stedelijk Museum, designed by Wim Crouwel, Total Design, 1966

Cover of the “Gedrukt in Japan” exhibition catalog from the Stedelijk Museum, designed by Wim Crouwel, Total Design, 1967

Cover of Gebrauchsgraphik by Heinz Hadem, 1950

Cover of Graphis magazine by Joseph Binder, 1948

Cover of Publimondial by Donald Brun. 1948

Cover of “Design Quarterly” by Rob Roy Kelly, Walker Art Center. 1963

+Herb Lubalin Study Center on flickr

The fabulous Alex Steinweiss

Alex Steinweiss was the man who basically invented the album cover. Before him, record sets were sold in book-like albums with brown paper interior sleeves containing multiple records, and the covers were simply plain, like the old photo albums or scrapbooks.

Steinweiss convinced his bosses at Columbia records to invest in the equipment to print on these covers. They started with generic covers that would leave a space for the album titles, and then gradually each album would have it's own conceptual design, as we know it today.

For more covers and info, visit Poul Webb's blog here.

This is an example of one of Steinweiss's early generic covers, used for symphonic works, the title would be inserted in the white box.

Wilhelm Furtwangler conducts Schumann & Haydn. mid 1950s

Paul Hindemith "Die Harmonie Der Welt" mid 1950s

I love this Boswell Sisters cover from 1942, as I love the Boswell Sisters themselves, but we'll talk about that later!

+poulwebb.blogspot.com

Cor van Velsen

Cornelius van Velsen (Dutch 1921-1910) designed 170 posters as well as LP covers and illustrated children's books. During WW2, he forged identity cards for the resistance.