The Art And Soul Of Futura

No, I’m not talking about the artist who created the creepy Pointman character for UNKLE. I’m referring to the typeface, which has been around since 1927 and is still in wide use today. How’s that for an aptly named font? As much as I love Futura, though, I struggle to use it these days. I...

Julia Guther.

I used to follow the Morr Music label pretty closely. Their “Blue Skied An’ Clear” compilation is still a classic, in my opinion. One of the few compilations in my collection that can stand up to “Lonely Is An Eyesore,” “Some Bizarre” “Artificial...

Visual Continuity

In the record store’s heyday, I used to love browsing singles, considering how the artwork related to the albums that spawned them. And this was regardless of whether I liked the band or not. In this age of a-la-carte song downloading, an album having actual singles with “b-sides”...

Orchestral Manoeuvres.

Jakub over on the excellent ISO50 blog just posted about the music his mom would play when he was young and how it has stayed with him all these years later. It’s funny that I read it just a day after reading about the new OMD release coming out in September. OMD’s “Electricity”...

By The Numbers

You may have noticed Stripmall Architecture’s catalogue system, each release having an “Object” or “Document” number attached to it. But, I’m willing to bet that most music fans don’t pay attention to catalogue numbers attached to any given release by any artist. And...

Welcome The Mystery Parade.

A quick welcome to Max (aka The Mystery Parade) to the blog. Hopefully, Max will provide a little more knowledge and insight about the design side of things here. Apart from art directing the Feathersongs For Factory Girls release, Max has worked with us on some Halou merchandise items in the late...