Alex Steinweiss, Inventor of the Modern Album Cover

The father of record design is Alex Steinweiss, who in 1940, at the age of 23, single-handedly invented the album cover. He’s made thousands of classical, jazz, and pop covers for Columbia, London, Decca, and Everest and his modern designs have graced the packaging, logos, and covers of dozens of distilleries, film studios, and magazines. Included here is a substantial sampling of Steinweiss’ work; personal recollections; essays by three-time Grammy Award-winning art director/designer Kevin Reagan and graphic design historian Steven Heller; and extensive ephemera from the Steinweiss archive, most of it never before published. Hardcover, measures 15 ½” x 13”. 422 pages.

No. 101-1,600: Limited to 1,500 numbered copies, each signed by the artist.

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