{"id":7932,"date":"2018-12-24T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2018-12-24T11:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T19:22:38","slug":"the-visual-history-of-blue-note-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/24\/the-visual-history-of-blue-note-records\/","title":{"rendered":"The visual history of Blue Note Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s hoping you get a little downtime to chill this week, all the better to check out bits of graphic design history like this tour from Vox:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KNgA7dDs90E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When asked to visualize what jazz looks like, you might picture bold typography, two tone photography, and minimal graphic design. If you did, you\u2019re recalling the work of a jazz label that single-handedly defined the \u201clook\u201d of jazz music in the 1950s and1960s: Blue Note.<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by the ever present Swiss lettering style that defined 20th century graphic design (think Paul Rand), Blue Note captured the refined sophistication of jazz during the early 60s, particularly during the hard bop era, and gave it a definitive visual identity through album covers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KNgA7dDs90E\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Stefan Bucher]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s hoping you get a little downtime to chill this week, all the better to check out bits of graphic design history like this tour from Vox: When asked to visualize what jazz looks like, you might picture bold typography, two tone photography, and minimal graphic design. If you did, you\u2019re recalling the work of [&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\/7932"}],"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=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7969,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions\/7969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}