1. All About Albums

2. Columbia Phonograph Company Founded 1889 Graphophones used prior Had 1 st jukeboxes

3. Covers Album Cover Front of the packaging of a commercially-released audio recording product or album.

4. Covers Protective cardboard sleeve for the 12” LP records. “LP” stands for LONG PLAY

5. Covers Used to only display the title of the album and artist’s name. Reflect artists music and performance. Reflected social climate of the era

6. Ca. 1950

7. Covers Think of the album cover as a ‘mini-canvas’.

8. Covers Marketing tool Part of culture and music Artists gained fame for their designs

10. TOOLS for Design Albums advertise through; Graphic Design Photography Illustration

11. Alfred Steinweiss Came up with idea for designing on covers of albums Original covers limited to 5 color lithographic printing

12. Alfred Steinweiss Art director at Columbia Records 1939, he was 23 years old. Designed from 1939-1973, roughly 2500

13. Album Cover Design The 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s

14. 1956

16. 1958

17. March 19, 1962

18. 1964

22. February 10, 1964

23. 1965

24. 1967

25. 1968

26. Behind the Magnolia Curtain- 1981

27. ALBUM LABELS

39. THE BEATLES Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 8 th album by the Beatles Collage of life-sized cardboard cutouts of famous people Titled “People We Like”

40. THE BEATLES Lyrics printed on the back cover. Original cover design was a psychedelic painting Collage included 70 famous people- writers, musicians, film stars, Indian gurus.

42. THE BEATLES Album released in 1967 Listed as one of top 500 albums of all time.