My husband collects vinyl. Records, that is. We have been spend a lot of time at used record shops when we go on vacation. I like to check out fabric and quilt shops and he likes the used record stores. I have found a new way to enjoy my time in the record shop, checking out the album covers! Many of them are quite inspirational from a quilting perspetive! I have come across quite a few artists that I like and want to collect.
It started with Saul Bass:
He designed everything in the 1960's, really. ok exaggeration! He was a graphic designer famous for such iconic logos as Kleenex, Quaker Oats, United Way, and Dixie cups. He did title sequences and posters for movies such as North by Northwest, It's a Mad,Mad World, Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder. I think he is one of the most copied designers ever.
This stuff makes me want to run to the sewing machine and make bright bold colourful quilts!
Then I discovered S. Neil Fujita, another designer, best known for the cover to the novel The Godfather.
I soon discovered jazz is where it is at for inspirational album covers!
Jim Flora:
(is it just me or do I see a future Laurel Burch here)
Then I discovered Command Records and Josef Albers
see previous post, I already made that quilt!
does this not remind you of one of blogger's early templates?
broken nine-patches?!
I am now reading Josef Albers A Retrospective. It turns out he is known for
Homage to the Square.
There is nothing more quilty than that!
3 comments:
Omg! Carol, each one of these is an inspiration.....I am thinking....12x12 ....maybe once a month challenge ....you would have quite the collection before long.....I can see an entire wall filled with these translated into textiles.
These are great! I love seeing potential quilts in all kinds of places.
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What fun, all my old record albums are out in the barn. Still haven't unpacked completely from the last move eleven years ago....It is definitely a good thing to explore
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