Nice, and visually witty, but a bit heavy on the distressed look. The distressed paper effects of a hundred del.icio.us photoshop tutorials are the sort of overworking that will make contemporary graphics age poorly compared to the Pelican covers (or Blue Note record covers from the Wu Tang) . posted by bendybendy at 4:32 AM on May 11
Except the Pelican covers weren't parodying old book design. Would these have been as effective at doing that without the distressed look? A mint-condition 1960s paperback makes a very different impression from one that's been well-loved.
Nice find, the_very_hungry_caterpillar! posted by rory at 4:41 AM on May 11
Phil Collins still looks creepy. posted by mattoxic at 4:58 AM on May 11
It's amazing how iconic that Joy Division cover became. I still see that on T-shirts almost weekly. posted by Devils Rancher at 5:08 AM on May 11
are they books, are they records. i don't get it. can i read it? or is this some trick photography internet thing?
curious in orlando... posted by billybobtoo at 5:42 AM on May 11
are they books, are they records. i don't get it. can i read it? or is this some trick photography internet thing? curious in orlando...
They're just the results of a designer taking a favorite design style and mashing it up with some favorite album covers. Nothing more. Just a freshman-level design exercise. And, one that is becoming boringly common. See also Wu-Note Covers, a mash-up of WuTang records with Blue Note art. posted by Thorzdad at 5:50 AM on May 11 [2 favorites has favorites]
They're just the results of a designer taking a favorite design style and mashing it up with some favorite album covers. Nothing more. Just a freshman-level design exercise. And, one that is becoming boringly common.
The distressed paper effects of a hundred del.icio.us photoshop tutorials are the sort of overworking that will make contemporary graphics age poorly compared to the Pelican covers
The vertical crease used many times on the covers bothered me. I was thinking album covers don't exactly, well, crease like that. Paperback covers, yes. Album covers, not so much. Unless you were really careless with them while playing the record, I guess. My family did have a Simon & Garfunkel album jacket that someone once folded in half while making a Hot Wheels jump. Don't ask. posted by Spatch at 6:36 AM on May 11 [2 favorites has favorites]
A more realistic effect would be the wear ring a vinyl album makes on its cover when records are stacked or packed tightly, (go ahead, hate on my, vinyl purists -- I was hell on my LPs) and 45-degree frays at the corners.
I thought the name scrawled on the Joe Jackson record was a nice touch, though. You saw this a lot -- people would take albums to parties/sleepovers and this was how you kept track of whose was whose. posted by Devils Rancher at 6:42 AM on May 11 [2 favorites has favorites]
"Beat-up old paperback" is officially the new steampunk. Who wants to start a pool on how long it will be before someone does a casemod to make their computer look like an oversized copy of Day of the Triffids? posted by No-sword at 7:04 AM on May 11 [2 favorites has favorites]
Let's turn this on its head. How about actual Penguin book covers from the 60's and 70's re-imagined as contemporary video game covers? I'm picturing the cover of The Stranger with an grim-faced Maya-rendered protagonist on the front, cigarette in hand, in front of casket on a beach being stalked by stereotyped Arab brandishing a knife, while the sun blazes in the sky.
The cover could also feature relevant hardware vendor logos such as NVIDIA Sophos - the world's fastest hardware-accelerated philosophy engine. posted by Pastabagel at 7:13 AM on May 11 [4 favorites has favorites]
This kind of thing would really sell to the audiophile geeks, wouldn't it? Some kind of Criterion Collection for albums? A little thematically unified cover art, a few bonus tracks, liner notes by Robert Christgau or Nick Tosches, new heavy vinyl, etc. I can imagine the internet debates as each new round of albums to be included in the collection is announced. posted by Rock Steady at 7:17 AM on May 11
The vertical crease used many times on the covers bothered me. I was thinking album covers don't exactly, well, crease like that. Paperback covers, yes.
A more realistic effect would be the wear ring a vinyl album makes on its cover when records are stacked or packed tightly
These are supposed to be books. "Classic records lost in time and format, re-emerged as Pelican books." posted by rory at 7:19 AM on May 11
Well that just makes it even sillier. posted by Spatch at 7:45 AM on May 11
I would read any novel Autechre decided to put out. Literature algorithmically-generated with Max/MSP could certainly put the Burroughs cut-up technique to shame. posted by naju at 9:30 AM on May 11
Well, I like it. (Although that vertical crease is noticeably reused far too many times, to the point that it threatens to ruin the whole project.) posted by Sys Rq at 9:46 AM on May 11
Very cool.
Sadly, for me, it has the unmistakable pre-smell of Formerly Neat Stuff That Cory Doctorow And Mark Frauenfelder Will Embrace As If It They Themselves Invented It.
very "white college radio" that thar collection! rock is dead! posted by celerystick at 10:02 AM on May 11
That word isn't pronounced like you think it's pronounced...
the wordplay isn't a pun like how you think it was told posted by the aloha at 10:47 AM on May 11
instead, meme too is a protologism to term derivatives which lack in either timeliness or creativity. this pelican, she flies a little late. posted by the aloha at 11:00 AM on May 11
Sadly, for me, it has the unmistakable pre-smell of Formerly Neat Stuff That Cory Doctorow And Mark Frauenfelder Will Embrace As If It They Themselves Invented It.
Y'know...I had the same feeling but just couldn't find the right words with which to express it. Thanks! posted by Thorzdad at 11:29 AM on May 11
White college radio? Clearly, your view of college radio is rather pedestrian, or not nearly snobby enough. I got a bad taste in my mouth when reading the tagline: Classic records lost in time and format.
Some are not what I would consider classic, and most are not lost. I was happy to see From Here to Eternity, which somehow seems fitting. posted by filthy light thief at 12:47 PM on May 11
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