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IdN v20n3: Music Graphic Issue — Is there still a role for designers in the music world?

The music industry is facing a major disconnect with its visual heritage as listeners switch to digital downloading. But some designers are hanging in there — they tell us why and how.

Contents:

Motion Gallery: Art Direction
Feature: Music Graphic
Creative Country: Brazil
Studio: Names to Note from HK, PA and SF
Idea: Particular Palettes
Branding

Specifications:

116 pages
6 varying paper stocks
4C process + spot UV + vanish
Online access to tv.idnworld.com included

Feature: Music Graphic Issue

When the music has to stop — or does it?

Recorded music has always been packaged, from the very earliest days when wax cylinders came in cardboard tubes, and has therefore always involved designers. In the palmy days of vinyl LPs with sometimes stunning cover art and often erudite liner notes, the presentation was almost as important as the product.

But with the industry morphing so rapidly into the field of digital-download delivery, where do the graphics come in now? This is a burning question for all those working in the area of visually representing music. To see what their answers are, read this feature story, which solicits the views of seven specialist music designers.

Featuring:

Telegramme Studio | Invisible Creature, Inc. | IWant Design | Daniel Reed | Matteo Meta | Leif Podhajsky | Giottographica

Motion Gallery: Art Direction

"Art Director" is more than just a job title!

With the increasing part played by special-effects and animation studios in the making of movies, how exactly does one define the job of “art director” now? At the end of the day, it is still all about “the look” — and in exclusive video interviews, two leading creative outfits, Analog and Eclumes Studios, explain what it takes to achieve it.

Featuring:

Analog | Eclumes Studios | and more!

Creative Country: Brazil

Self-expression flourishes again in samba-land

Long recovered from its decades of military dictatorship and artistic repression, Brazilian design is drawing on its “wealth of graphic icons, clothes, colours and identities” to show the world that it still has what it takes to make a visual impact. The nation’s natural instincts of self-expression are being brought into play at the very moment that attention is most closely focused on it with the upcoming football World Cup and Olympic Games due to place it in the forefront of the global media glare. Can today’s generation of Brazilian designers live up to their country’s status as an emerging economic giant?

Featuring:

Lebre Azul | Misprinted Type | ps.2 | Sinlogo | Studio Campo | Zansky

Studio: Names to Note from Hong Kong, Paris and San Francisco

Good Morning Studio | Les Graphiquants | Manual Creative

Idea: Particular Palettes

Deke Smith | Zédapaz | Coöp | Magda Antoniuk | Tind

Branding

TRÜF | Guilherme Villar | Bond