Steinweiss

“I love music so much and I had such ambition that I was willing to go way beyond what the hell they paid me for. I wanted people to look at the artwork and hear the music.” —Alex SteinweissAlex S ...

“I love music so much and I had such ambition that I was willing to go way beyond what the hell they paid me for. I wanted people to look at the artwork and hear the music.” —Alex SteinweissAlex Steinweiss (1917–2011) invented the album cover as we know it. In 1940, asColumbia Records’ young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months its record sales increased by over 800 per cent.Over the next three decades, Steinweiss made thousands of original artworks for classical, j Steinweiss - Alex Steinweiss, Kevin Reagan, Steven Heller od authora Alex Steinweiss, Kevin Reagan, Steven Heller a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz