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Vintage Color & Design: Record Sleeves

Vintage Color & Design: Record Sleeves


Here's some color inspiration from vintage record sleeves collected by artist Kavel Rafferty, who has some nice work of her own as well. This collection takes us through a selection of sleeves from some of the most prominent international record companies of the time, and gives us an idea of their focus on design even behind the album cover...

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polskie_nagraniaRCA

Via aesthetic outburst > HI + LOW


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liddle_r

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
Very cool!

tenkerasu

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
it sucks the stuff they're made of decays so quickly; my parents used to have stuff like this, but they lost most of it in a flood. this is so pretty. i hope they make more, i really do...

SparrowLP

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
beautiful!

IPERHER

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
hahhahahahhaha
this post is very cool!

bunigrl33

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
Nice. The only one of these I've ever seen before is that last RCA one.

Mitternacht

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
Wow, another very inspiring collection, thanks a lot. The printing techniques of the time give a special, warm flavour to these colours, that today's designers are trying to reproduce after years of Pantonese perfection dictatorship. Nice.

joabear

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
aaaaaaaaaah i love this!!! i love this sooooooooomuch you have no idea thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!

Lulu 05

Posted 3 Nov, 2008
a m a z i n g, thanks for another great post !

papertrix

Posted 4 Nov, 2008
Best post ever! Thanks...

kilizman

Posted 4 Nov, 2008
they made me shiver Thanks a lot :))

greencapsule

Posted 4 Nov, 2008
Vintage album covers are the coolest things! Timeless designs!

caranicola

Posted 5 Nov, 2008
DOES THIS INSPIRE YOU "VINTAGE"?... www.vintagegirl.ro

I mean the color pallet and the design of th webpage... Tks.

pi

Posted 6 Nov, 2008
elektra

Puffypug211

Posted 8 Nov, 2008
I LOVE VINTAGE!!

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