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Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art [part 5]

Posted on April 29, 2015 by postpunkmonk

ALBUM 9: Live In The City of Light | 1987| designer: Assorted iMaGes Malcolm Garrett returned to the design duties for the next album, but I must ask… at what cost? Jim Kerr has quipped in the press five years earlier that … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock | Tagged 1987, 1989, Assorted Images, cover art, Live In the City of Light, Malcolm Garrett, Simple Minds, Street Fighting Years | Leave a comment

Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art [part 2]

Posted on April 24, 2015 by postpunkmonk

ALBUM 3: Empires + Dance | 1980| designer: The Artifex Studio The third album by Simple Minds had a photographic cover that was a huge break from their first two. It was a pre-existing photo that had caught Jim Kerr’s eye in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Rock GPA, Scots Rock | Tagged 1980, 1981, cover art, Simple Minds | 6 Comments

Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art

Posted on April 23, 2015 by postpunkmonk

While the last 162 days have been about focusing on the music of Simple Minds, as a graphic designer, the notion of their cover art was deemed unimportant to the task at hand, yet I cannot end this mega-thread without … Continue reading →