This is a perfect example of why the internet is so freaking amazing. Back in the day, long 'bout 15-20 years ago, the only place you'd have a chance in hell of seeing something like this would be at a random gallery showing (I loved Baltimore's First Thursday!) or, if the artist was big enough or lucky enough, maybe in a magazine or something. Now, anyone with a great idea has the potential to be seen by millions, including you and me.
Enter Huw Gwilliam, a graphic designer from the UK who struck gold with his idea to take classic rock and roll album covers and re-imagine them as vintage Pelican books. There's not a single one that doesn't look great, but as people who know me know, it should come as no surprise that the Licensed To Ill cover is my hands down favorite. If I had both the time and inclination to rip off his idea, I'd probably do up the entire Beasties catalog in a similar fashion, before moving on to Public Enemy and The Clash...
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on Jul 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 am
There was a cool gallery showing I remember reading about in the late 1990s where an artist/architect had taken a bunch of classic shows and drawn the "actual" setting, including Gilligan's Island, the Bradys' house, and so on. I've always wanted to see those diagrams collected as a book and I'm amazed that such a map apparently doesn't exist online for Sesame Street, for example.
on Jul 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 am
I would pay gen-yoo-wine money for a poster sized map of Sesame Street.