Once upon a time the music industry packaged recordings in plain, brown wrappers, just like pornography. Alex Steinweiss did away with all that when he created his first album cover back in 1938.
Steinweiss’s marquee design put across a recording of Rodgers and Hart show tunes and revolutionized the industry. Album and CD artwork has run the design gamut ever since. From 2D and 3D designs to punk, funk, junk, psychedelia and all things avant-garde. There’s no categorizing every variation, but some looks are more representative than others.
Groovy Sex Photography:
“Whipped Cream & Other Delights,”
Designed by Peter Whorf, 1965.
Whorf pictorially captured the 1960’s with a design that had it all: a celebrated headliner in Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, a groovy, period font, a pretty face, alluring cleavage, and plenty of shaving cream—cans and cans of the stuff (whipped cream melted too easily and was only used on the head and fingers). Model Dolores Erickson was 29 at the time of the shoot; she was also pregnant, but hadn’t started to show. The artwork remains a hit decades later. Alpert often announced during concerts, “Sorry, but I can’t play the cover for you.”
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“Ufabulum” (studio cover), designed by Tom Jenkinson, 2012.
Groovy Sex Photography: “Whipped Cream & Other Delights,” Designed by Peter Whorf, 1965.
