Books: Mid-90s DIY album art project out now
Sep 02, 09
Covering the 90s scene that spawned a thousand new ways of creating art through music packaging, a new book project called DIY Album Art: Paper Bags and Office Supplies is out now and revels in the ethos of punk, indie and hardcore do-it-yourselfers by collecting and curating some of the more remarkable examples of art through the common man alongside stories from the artists, label founders and musicians that made it all happen, all culled together from the personal collection of J. Namdev Hardisty. Hardisty, you may remember (or not) is the man behind the epic New Skateboard Graphics. Labels like Gravity, Bloodlink, Arcade Kacha, Tree, File 13 and many many more are all respected and represented. You can get your hands on a copy for $35 right this second. We can't tell you how much we lament the death of the album artwork as art form because of the dawn of the iTunes track-only nation, but we think you guys understand what we mean.
(mp3) Tullycraft - DIY Queen
Godspeed!
