Christoph Gowans is an experienced British art director who has designed mainstream magazines and bestselling albums, including sleeve designs for The Pet Shop Boys and New Order.
He's also a playful artist, and a couple of years ago began a project called The Record Books, re-imagining classic albums as book titles - he designs the covers, and also writes a sentence or two about the book's content.
Abbey Road
On Scholarly Kitchen today is a post after my own heart, "What Can Publishers Learn from Indie Rock?" Michael Clarke talks about the tactile joys of music on vinyl, while noting that indie bands that sell their wares via the anachronistic medium almost always include a digital version, either a CD or a download code.
Quoth Clarke: "What indie rock bands have figured out is that the purchase of music does not have to be an either/or proposition. They don’t make their customers choose between analog or digital."
—Brian Howard
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