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Jimmy Turrell (UK, - )

Creative Review, “Truth & Lies” Issue, 2020, cover art

"I wanted ... that the cover looked like it could be peeled to reveal hidden meanings... I screenprinted onto old wallpaper, MDF, parts of an actual door, even onto a glass (which I then smashed)... to hint at the concept of information..."

http://www.jimmyturrell.com/projects/creative-review-process/

http://www.jimmyturrell.com/projects/creative-review-covers-x-3/

https://northernart.ac.uk/jimmy-turrell/

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/

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JIMMY TURRELL Biotop concept store, Japan Two Islands

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Birthdays 5.6

Beer Birthdays

Bernard "Toots" Shor; saloonkeeper (1903)

Five Favorite Birthdays

George Clooney; actor (1961)

John Flansburgh; pop musician, "TMBG" (1960)

Willie Mays; San Francisco Giants CF (1931)

Anne Parillaud; actor (1960)

Orson Welles; film director, actor (1915)

Famous Birthdays

Paul Alverdes; German writer (1897)

Nestor Basterretxea; Spanish artist (1924)

Charles Batteux; French philosopher (1713)

Raymond Bailey; actor (1904)

Tom Bergeron; television host (1955)

Tony Blair; British politician (1953)

Susan Brown; English actor (1946)

Geneva Carr; actor (1971)

Jeffery Deaver; writer (1950)

Willem de Sitter; Dutch scientist (1872)

Robert H. Dicke; physicist and astronomer (1916)

Ariel Dorfman; Argentinian writer (1942)

Roma Downey; actor (1960)

Sigmund Freud; psychiatrist (1856)

Jimmie Dale Gilmore; country singer (1945)

Stewart Granger; English-American actor (1906)

Dana Hill; actor (1964)

Amy Hunter; actor and model (1966)

Ross Hunter; actor (1926)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; German-Swiss artist (1880)

Paul Lauterbur; chemist (1929)

Kal Mann; songwriter (1917)

Harry Martinson; Swedish writer (1904)

Lars Mikkelsen; Danish actor (1964)

Christian Morgenstern; German writer (1871)

Motilal Nehru; Indian politician (1861)

Martha Nussbaum; philosopher (1947)

Michael O'Hare; actor (1952)

Adrianne Palicki; actor (1983)

Robert Peary; arctic explorer (1856)

Marguerite Piazza; actor (1920)

Gina Riley; Australian actor (1961)

Maximilian Robespierre; French revolutionary (1758)

Tony Scalzo; pop singer (1964)

Bob Seger; rock musician (1945)

Rolf Maximilian Sievert; Swedish physicist (1906)

Randall Stout; architect (1958)

Jean-Baptiste Stuck; Italian-French composer (1680)

Rabindranath Tagore; Indian writer (1861)

James Turrell; artist (1943)

Rudolph Valentino; actor (1895)

Adrienne Warren; actor (1987)

Andre Weil; French mathematician (1906)

Theodore H. White; historian and writer (1915)

Lynn Whitfield; actor (1953)

Wally Wingert; actor (1961)

Jaime Winstone; English actor (1985)

Denny Wright; English guitarist (1924)

Raquel Zimmermann; Brazilian model (1983)

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The Prodigy’s «Baby’s Got A Temper» was released in July 2002 — next year it will turn twenty! That’s the reason why our team prepared absolutely stunning material about the single: we’ve posted a short story of the track, remembered some demo drafts from that period and shared a bunch of rare details about the single artwork, that was created by magnificent Jimmy Turrell. Check this out!

Link below: theprodi.gy/bgat-single-story

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MUSIC RESPONSE; ALBUM COVER IMAGERY - The Customisers

How do you take the album cover to the next level? For a handful of artists the answer is to create a customisable cover, often as a limited edition run of exclusive edition vinyl. 

Andy Warhol’s Album cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)

Perhaps the original, and most iconic, adopter of this practice is Andy Warhol’s design for the debut album by The Velvet Underground. The innovative cover featured the image of a banana covered with a sticker which fans could pull back to reveal the pink coloured fruit beneath. Although the complexities of the interactive sticker element delayed the release of the album, the record label MGM were willing to wait and incur the additional costs to cover its production as they felt the tie to Warhol would boost sales. Initially a commercial failure, it took a decade before the album started to attract praise from critics and slowly took on cult status. In the music journalism industry ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’ is now deemed as one of the most influential albums of all time.

Abigail Cain’s photo of the original Rauschenberg-designed Speaking in Tongues album cover, signed by David Byrne and the artist himself. 

Another customisable artwork which delayed the release of the album was Robert Rauschenberg’s piece for Talking Head’s 1983 ‘Speaking In Tongues’. The limited edition run of 50,000 referenced Rauschenberg’s ‘Revolver’ artwork featuring five plexiglass discs silkscreen painted with a collage of images. The discs were lined up in a metal cradle and a set of switches controlled by the viewer rotated the discs to allow the viewer to determine their position. It took the guitarist and keyboard player Jerry Harrison six months to find a manufacturer to make the cover and transparent vinyl. 

Rauchenberg later went on to win a Grammy for this album artwork design.

Before and after scratching David Rudnick’s cover for Nicolas Jaar’s ‘Sirens’ (2016)

In more recent times, when digital steaming far outweighs vinyl sales there are still examples of customisable artwork featuring on album covers. Designer and typographer David Rudnick’s cover for Nicolas Jaar’s 2016 release ‘Sirens’ on first viewing looks plain white with an American Quarter tucked in the plastic dust jacket. On closer inspection the cover is film of lottery paper which invites the owner to actively participate in scratching off the film to reveal the artwork below; a photograph of Times Square, New York taken by the singer’s father Alfredo Jaar. 

Jimmy Turrell and Steve Stacey’s design for Beck’s Colors Deluxe Edition LP (2017)

2017 saw the release of a customisable edition ‘Colors’ by Beck designed by Jimmy Turrell and Steve Stacey. The deluxe edition sees a visual representation of the albums title with a set of various coloured shapes which can be slotted into the die cut hexagonal cover. 

After chatting with Beck we decided to bring together globular paint-like forms, simple geometric shapes and stripped back typography to create visuals that really summed up the melodic, upbeat nature of the album.

Jimmy Turrell (2017)

Personal Reflection

When creating a design for music cover art vinyl certainly gives the biggest physical canvas to work on. Thinking about Malcolm Garrett’s statement that “a record sleeve is not a substitute for an art gallery wall” as well as the suggestion that in today’s digital dominated market vinyl releases are more likely to be bought by fans as merchandise, creating a physical piece that is in some way customisable appeals to me.

References

news.masterworksfineart.com. (n.d.). Analysis: Andy Warhol’s Banana, 1967. [online] Available at: https://news.masterworksfineart.com/2019/06/12/analysis-andy-warhols-banana-1967.

Wikipedia Contributors (2019). The Velvet Underground & Nico. [online] Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_%26_Nico.

Cain, A. (2016). The Story behind Robert Rauschenberg’s Iconic Talking Heads Album Cover. [online] Artsy. Available at: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-story-behind-robert-rauschenberg-s-iconic-talking-heads-album-cover.

Spice, A. (2016). Scratch beneath the surface of Nicolas Jaar’s new album Sirens. [online] The Vinyl Factory. Available at: https://thevinylfactory.com/news/nicolas-jaar-sirens-vinyl-artwork/ [Accessed 16 Oct. 2020].

Beck (2017). Beck - Colors Deluxe Vinyl Preview. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX54mI6c1JA.

Jimmy Turrell. (n.d.). BECK - “COLORS” ALBUM. [online] Available at: http://www.jimmyturrell.com/projects/beck-colors-album/ [Accessed 16 Oct. 2020].

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Hyperspace cover art, designed by Jimmy Turrell, photo by Mikai Karl 

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Guardian Guide Cover Variations by Jimmy Turrell (2013)

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Birthdays 5.6

Beer Birthdays

Bernard "Toots" Shor; saloonkeeper (1903)

Five Favorite Birthdays

George Clooney; actor (1961)

John Flansburgh; pop musician, "TMBG" (1960)

Willie Mays; San Francisco Giants CF (1931)

Anne Parillaud; actor (1960)

Orson Welles; film director, actor (1915)

Famous Birthdays

Paul Alverdes; German writer (1897)

Nestor Basterretxea; Spanish artist (1924)

Charles Batteux; French philosopher (1713)

Raymond Bailey; actor (1904)

Tom Bergeron; television host (1955)

Tony Blair; British politician (1953)

Susan Brown; English actor (1946)

Geneva Carr; actor (1971)

Jeffery Deaver; writer (1950)

Willem de Sitter; Dutch scientist (1872)

Robert H. Dicke; physicist and astronomer (1916)

Ariel Dorfman; Argentinian writer (1942)

Roma Downey; actor (1960)

Sigmund Freud; psychiatrist (1856)

Jimmie Dale Gilmore; country singer (1945)

Stewart Granger; English-American actor (1906)

Dana Hill; actor (1964)

Amy Hunter; actor and model (1966)

Ross Hunter; actor (1926)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner; German-Swiss artist (1880)

Paul Lauterbur; chemist (1929)

Kal Mann; songwriter (1917)

Harry Martinson; Swedish writer (1904)

Lars Mikkelsen; Danish actor (1964)

Christian Morgenstern; German writer (1871)

Motilal Nehru; Indian politician (1861)

Martha Nussbaum; philosopher (1947)

Michael O'Hare; actor (1952)

Adrianne Palicki; actor (1983)

Robert Peary; arctic explorer (1856)

Marguerite Piazza; actor (1920)

Gina Riley; Australian actor (1961)

Maximilian Robespierre; French revolutionary (1758)

Tony Scalzo; pop singer (1964)

Bob Seger; rock musician (1945)

Rolf Maximilian Sievert; Swedish physicist (1906)

Randall Stout; architect (1958)

Jean-Baptiste Stuck; Italian-French composer (1680)

Rabindranath Tagore; Indian writer (1861)

James Turrell; artist (1943)

Rudolph Valentino; actor (1895)

Adrienne Warren; actor (1987)

Andre Weil; French mathematician (1906)

Theodore H. White; historian and writer (1915)

Lynn Whitfield; actor (1953)

Wally Wingert; actor (1961)

Jaime Winstone; English actor (1985)

Denny Wright; English guitarist (1924)

Raquel Zimmermann; Brazilian model (1983)

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Byker Wall font by Jimmy Turrell.