Comments on: The lost art of sleeve design http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/02/14/the-lost-art-of-sleeve-design/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tony Barber http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/02/14/the-lost-art-of-sleeve-design/comment-page-1/#comment-100641 Tony Barber Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:31:15 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=7#comment-100641 Bubbles. Garrett. Saville. Oliver. Plus,before Punk, there was virtually no such thing as a single sleeve. Punk definately upped the ante in terms of record design. TB Bubbles.
Garrett.
Saville.
Oliver.

Plus,before Punk, there was virtually no such thing as a single sleeve.
Punk definately upped the ante in terms of record design.

TB

]]> By: Malcolm Garrett http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/02/14/the-lost-art-of-sleeve-design/comment-page-1/#comment-9031 Malcolm Garrett Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:58:03 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=7#comment-9031 Far from killing record sleeve design, Punk actively promoted it, with an explosion of bands and their low budget recordings all demanding a strong visual presence. Barney Bubbles did some of greatest work 9for Stiff and Radar) in the wake of Punk, and Peter Saville's inimitably magificent works for Factory Records would not have happened without the impetus of the Sex Pistols spurring the whole country into a frenzy of musical activity. Far from killing record sleeve design, Punk actively promoted it, with an explosion of bands and their low budget recordings all demanding a strong visual presence.

Barney Bubbles did some of greatest work 9for Stiff and Radar) in the wake of Punk, and Peter Saville’s inimitably magificent works for Factory Records would not have happened without the impetus of the Sex Pistols spurring the whole country into a frenzy of musical activity.

]]> By: LondonLee http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/02/14/the-lost-art-of-sleeve-design/comment-page-1/#comment-8520 LondonLee Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:20:51 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=7#comment-8520 I just discovered this blog via AceJet and - as a designer with a music blog - I'm very happy to have found it. I don't think punk killed sleeve design, fancy gatefolds may have gone out of fashion but records still came in some very inventive sleeves (the first PiL single wrapped in a fake newspaper for example). What killed sleeve design was the CD. There just isn't the room to be as conceptually clever anymore and the typography has to be 'louder' to get noticed. I just discovered this blog via AceJet and – as a designer with a music blog – I’m very happy to have found it.

I don’t think punk killed sleeve design, fancy gatefolds may have gone out of fashion but records still came in some very inventive sleeves (the first PiL single wrapped in a fake newspaper for example). What killed sleeve design was the CD. There just isn’t the room to be as conceptually clever anymore and the typography has to be ‘louder’ to get noticed.

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