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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 →

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Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art [part 4]

Posted on April 28, 2015 by postpunkmonk

ALBUM 7: Sparkle in The Rain | 1984| designer: Assorted iMaGes When Simple Minds followed a dramatically different tangent on their follow up to the breakthrough “New Gold Dream” album, designer followed along, albeit with one foot in the past. The … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art [part 3]

Posted on April 27, 2015 by postpunkmonk

ALBUM 6: New Gold Dream [81, 82, 83, 84] | 1982| designer: Assorted iMaGes Last post had a comment from Echorich stating that “Malcolm Garret had his finger of the pulse of the 80s.” With their next album, one might be tempted to … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 76]

Posted on April 22, 2015 by postpunkmonk

[…concluded from previous post] When I imagine the next step this band might take in their long and winding career, the notion of returning to the vibe of the early music has already been done. It’s yielded reasonably strong material … Continue reading →

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Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 75]

Posted on April 21, 2015 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from previous post] While past members were not the way forward for the band, the past music held the key to the way forward. Early Simple Minds were starting to get name checked, coupled with the fact that the last time … Continue reading →

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