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mannlibrary · 2 years

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Photos of casket cover flower arrangements from the book, Album of Designs: Funeral Flowers. [19--]. Published by Chicago’s Florist Publishing Company. https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/6742213

#funeral #funeral flowers #flowers #flower arrangement #vintage flowers #vintage floral arrangement #floral arrangement #casket #coffin #death #funeral planning #Cornell University #album of designs #chicago's florist publishing company #vintage book #vintage illustration #vintage photography

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zegalba · 4 months

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Depeche Mode: Violator (1990)

#Depeche Mode #violator #album art #cassette #black #graphic design #music #1990

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robsheridan · 2 months

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Hard to believe Nine Inch Nails' classic The Downward Spiral is 30 years old today! Here is some detail photography I took of the original album cover painting by Russell Mills for the 10th anniversary deluxe edition release, which I had the unique honor of designing, and somehow that is now 20 year old.

Everyone has that one album that hit at just the right moment of adolescence to change their perspective on music and get them through their teenage angst. The Downward Spiral was that album for me, released as it was in 1994, when I was a freshman in high school (and an absolute banner year for music/films/games all around). I must have stared at the artwork for hours over those years, without even much detail to draw from on its tiny 5” CD slip case. So five years later, when I found myself inexplicably working for Nine Inch Nails, it was surreal to see the actual original painting in the flesh, hanging as it was at the time in Trent Reznor’s office at Nothing Studios, New Orleans.

I was struck by how much dimension and texture there was in the artwork that never translated on that tiny slipcase printing, how much detail was happening in the physical materials of the art: Flies, moths, wires, blood… I had been staring at this “painting” for so long, yet suddenly it was like I had never seen it before. I also noticed that it had aged - the wires had wilted over the years, drooping down from their original position as captured in the original album cover (interestingly, judging by the photo posted today by NIN, the piece has since been restored); a tooth was missing from the other main piece.

That experience stuck with me and it was the first thing I thought about when the task of re-imagining the album package fell upon me in 2004. I wanted to re-photograph the artwork, subtly updating the cover to show that ten years had changed it physically, much like our perceptions of art and music and memories change over time with perspective. I also wanted to dig into the previously unseen details of the work and explore it with my macro lens, so that fans like me, old and new, could have new layers of texture to pore over for hours while listening to a legendary album.

Happy birthday, old friend.

#nine inch nails #the downward spiral #nin #trent reznor #90s nostalgia #90s music #industrial #rob sheridan #Russell mills #photography #album art #album design

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portalmonsterrr · 3 months

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did I forget about tumblr again no I didnt

Yae Miko would order an entire line of these for Kuni

#kavetham family au #genshin impact #wanderer #yae miko #me deciding scara's hoodie design like #what do emo kids listen to these days #looking over my recent albums #fob it is then...........#stepmotherhood goals (?)

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2001hz · 11 months

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Björk: All is Full of Love (1999)

#bjork #björk #bjork archive #all is full of love #lovecore #1999 #alternative #electronic #music #cd #compact disc #album #artworks #graphic design #y2k aesthetic

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artelarium · 6 months

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now that we don’t talk by taylor swift.

i am so inspired right now, i have a lot of ideas and edits to post!

you can also follow me on pinterest, it would help me a lot 🫶🏻

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kallumdesign · 2 months

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#cover #artwork #design #fan art #album cover #edit #graphic design #taylor’s version #Taylor Swift #youre losing me #taylor swift edits

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h-f-k · 9 days

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THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT | Concept Redesign

Taylor Swift's 11th studio album The Tortured Poets Department dives into the lives of victorian women who refused to adopt wholesale the codes and conventions of the male poetic tradition.

More about the concept under the cut

Theodore Turner, Thomas Bennet, Paul Wright and David Morgan founded TTPD in 1835 in New York with the hopes of making their way through the world of literature. 20 years later they found themselves being the most prolific publishing house in the city with acclaimed poems and short stories becoming an undeniable force among their female readers. No one could believe four men around the age of 30 could understand the nuances of love, heartbreak, loss and hopelessness as well as they did. But not every story has a happy ending. While the four gentleman became history and their names were positioned next to the biggest names of american poetry of the 19th century there's something that lies beneath that chronicle.

35 Women were the backbone of TTPD writing everything from poems, short stories and even clever and witty jokes that were quite hard for victorian men to grasp. While relegated to the back of the building they tried to fought for their space in the poetry world. Each publication was signed with the initials TTPD and while common readers could interpret that as the well known acronym of the company's founders they believed leaving their own trace would mean something to future writers and women across the country.

The Tortured Poets Department was born out of anger and spite yet kept going for so many years, until the company closed, because the shared love for poetry and expressing and seeing the world in a different way was cathartic for 35 women who from a young age were told to get married fast and not intefere in gentlemen's business.

This album shines a light on those women who died thinking their efforts to become someone were useless. The Tortured Poets Department dives into lives of 35 victorian women who refused to adopt wholesale the codes and conventions of the male poetic tradition and recounts the story as it should've been told in the first place.

#taylor swift #tswiftedit #tayswiftedit #graphic #album design #graphic design #graphics #please someone ask me stuff about the concept cause i can't for the life of me explain it like this lmao #there's so much lore i made up

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whatsurdesign · 10 months

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demolition lobsters

#my chemical romance #mcr #frank iero #gerard way #mikey way #ray toro #photoshop #graphic design #three cheers for sweet revenge #revenge #album art #emo #emo aesthetic #art

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polturn · 11 months

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I recently did a project for local band Weird Year (for their latest album Nick Hates The Beach). It ended up something like a tour journal following a band on a strange roadtrip along the California coast, dodging the surreal and the fantastic all the way to a gig.

This was such a fun project for me. I love doing art for music and making up a little narrative of an indie band roadtrip was just... so damn fun.

If you care to listen to the album its on Sp0tif¥ and AppIe Music. Or have a look at their music videos on youtube. ✌️