Sites I like

I’m interested in records as objects and I like record sleeve design. I don’t mean album covers but the generic seeves of the record company that non-picture sleeve singles were sold in. I came across a website I found very interesting called record envelope. The site has images of lots of record sleeves mostly from the sixties and seventies. I like the way that the designs are all built around a circle placed central to a square, and how they use that in one way or another.

Some of the designs, such as one for a German label called Amiga, build the design around the circle and then others will intersect it and use it as a disruptive element (the Vocallion and Kent sleeves for instance).

Another site I like is grain edit. Lots of interesting graphic design stuff.