Hardformat

Made by Amanda Ghassaei who previously made a record using a 3d printer. Beautiful to behold.

Details on Wired.

Hipgnosis.
BBC news article.
Wikipedia page.

This is a really interesting film of Jonathan Barnbrook talking about his work with David Bowie. It’s well worth watching, in fact I wish it was longer. The Victoria and Albert museum has decided in its infinite wisdom to disable embedding of their videos in other websites (why?) so you’ll have to click on this link to view it:

https://vimeo.com/62172393

From my limited reading of the media, Bowie’s launch of his first album in a decade has been very successful. Here’s a recently tweeted shot of a newspaper ad:

Images from Barnbrook’s blog, I really like this shot of the CD design:

Do check out the other images.

Continuing an occasional – possibly tremendously short-lived, who knows – series of posts sharing covers I like, here’s a striking one from Mr Ra.