{"id":12725,"date":"2008-04-12T11:36:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T11:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/04\/adventures-in-album-artwork.html"},"modified":"2008-04-12T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T11:36:50","slug":"adventures_in_album_artwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/12\/adventures_in_album_artwork\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in album artwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when vinyl was giving way to tapes &amp; CDs, I heard purists bemoan the loss of a large-format way to distribute album artwork.  Now with the prevalance of downloads, do you know offhand what artwork is attached to most of your music?&#160; iTunes tries to help, but it&#8217;s an uphill battle.  Anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nikolay Saveliev&#8217;s rad <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolaysaveliev.com\/popmatters.html\">Pop Matters<\/a> project consists of &#8220;Vinyl record sleeves with 2-sided insert featuring<br \/>\nfaux-academic material on pop music and the state of the<br \/>\nrecord industry&#8230;<br \/>\nSnuck onto used&amp; new record store shelves.&#8221;&#160; Personal fave: &#8220;Nickelback: The Recursiveness of Professional Mediocrity.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Pitchfork picks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/feature\/47479-staff-list-the-20-worst-album-covers-of-2007\">The Worst Album Covers of 2007<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Listropolis has translated the artwork for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listropolis.com\/?p=190\">Rolling Stone\u2019s Top 20 Albums into color palettes<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CoudalFreshSignals\/~3\/267037704\/album_palettes.php\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>Should classic album covers be redesigned every few years?&#160; Ben Wardle <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2008\/04\/lets_redesign_classic_album_co.html\">makes that case<\/a>, with examples. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.designobserver.com\/archives\/035554.html\">Via<\/a>] \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when vinyl was giving way to tapes &amp; CDs, I heard purists bemoan the loss of a large-format way to distribute album artwork. Now with the prevalance of downloads, do you know offhand what artwork is attached to most of your music?&#160; iTunes tries to help, but it&#8217;s an uphill battle. Anyway&#8230; Nikolay Saveliev&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}