Between the Beats

Some time ago, my girlfriend discovered the great website www.hardformat.org, a blog about music and design. On this page you can find great picture galleries about record covers from music genres like Jazz and others and much information on the photografers and designers of these pieces. Hardformat exists since two years and was founded by the two London based guys Colin Buttimer and Justin Amphlett.

Aim is, to direct the readers attention to the worth of physical music media. A mp3 will never be able to replace a beautiful stylish record cover. It’s not Hardfomat’s intention to only show dusty designs from the old and glory days of Jazz, they also want to highlight the modern designs that are produced these days, like Radiohead and Factory Records (New Order, Joy Division and Roxy Music, all designed by Peter Saville).

It is the concept of Hardformat,to honour and present designs that always have been unnoticed but reflect the content of the album much better and formidable. There are already way too many books about a lot of well-known music covers like e.g. The Beatles’ “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” out there.

One designer you should draw your attention to is Reid Miles. He designed many covers for the great Blue Note label, one of them is “Free Form” of Donald Byrd, an album we once raffled on our blog.

Tags: Beatles, Blue Note, Colin Buttimer, Design, Factory Records, hardformat, Justin Amphlett, Peter Saville, Reid Miles

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