Vintage Japanese Sonosheet Cover Art

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Music on September 14, 2009 at 3:17 am

In the 1970s, cheap sonosheets (phonograph records printed on thin, flexible sheets of vinyl) became quite the rage in Japan. Like all fads, these recordings have largely disappeared – but you can still gawk at the fantastic cover art over at Pink Tentacle:

Widely available from a variety of publishers, the most popular sonosheets featured theme music from TV anime, manga and tokusatsu, and they often came packaged inside booklets featuring colorful artwork. The sonosheet boom was short-lived, though — many companies went under as the market became flooded in the 1970s, and the phenomenon all but disappeared by the 1980s. Here is a small sample of the vast array of sonosheet cover art from that era.

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Der Orchideengarten

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on July 6, 2009 at 11:28 pm


The world’s first fantasy magazine, Der Orchideengarten, was published in Germany from 1919 to 1921. The 51 issues featured artistic though sometimes disturbing cover art. Will at A Journey Round My Skull has obtained the first 14 issues and has scanned and posted the covers. Link

 
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Soviet Russian Album Covers

Posted by Miss Cellania in Music on June 24, 2009 at 9:43 am


English Russia has a collection of record album covers from the 70s and 80s. Looking through these, I get the feeling that I’ve seen these before, just with different faces and a language I understand. Link -via Metafilter

 
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