Top ‘10’ : Design direction Programme title: The Album Art Collective : Ten designers and artists Programme Content: A journey through Music History: The 60’s from Blue Note in house designer Reid Miles to Andy Warhol. Through the 70’s with Hipgnosis, Barney Bubbles, Peter Saville and Malcolm Garrett. The 80’s 4Ad and Vaughan Oliver, Through the 90’s with Mark Farrow, Ben Dury and Futura 2000 to 200 with Julian House Audience: Graphic Designers, illustrators and artists Music Lovers Aged 18 to 65
Year
Designer Label
1962
Reid Miles
1969
Specific Content
Album
Band
Blue Note
Freddie Hubburd
The Hub-tones
Andy Warhol
Blue Note
Blue Lights
Kenny Burrell
1971
Andy Warhol
Virgin
Sticky fingers
The Rolling Stones
1971
Barney Bubbles
United Artists
In search of space
Hawkwind
1973
Hipgnosis
EMI
Pink Floyd
1977
Barney Bubbles
Stiff Records
The Dark Side of the Moon Music is for Pleasure
1979
Barney Bubbles
Radar
Armed Forces
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
1979
Malcolm Garrett
United Artists
Buzzcocks
1979
Ray Lowry / Penny Smith
CBS
A Different Kind of Tension London Calling
1983
Peter Saville
Factory Records
New Order
Blue Monday
1994
Futura 2000
Mo’ Wax
The Time Has come
U.N.C.L.E.
1997
Mark Farrow
Dedicated
Lasie and Gentleman
Spiritualised
1998
Ben Drury
Mo’ Wax
Push the Button
Money Mark
2000
Julian House
Creation
XTRMNTR
Primal Scream
The Damned
The Clash
A BBC 4 documentary covering the stories behind ten Graphic designers and their links through subculture, music and album cover design from the 1960’s to 2011
A one hour slot scheduled on Friday or Saturday night 10pm
Visual direction
Use soundbites of the sounds of vinyl and Tracks from Albums
Visual Content Two options: 1. Create Simple icons and use fonts from the Album covers or 2. Purely kinetic type using designer names, bands, Album names, dates.
Visual concept The tone of voice will be Retro