Grace Jones & Richard Burnstein.
This is the inside spread from the Grace Jones album, Muse (1979). As far as the album goes, its probably not one her best, but it does have some good, although somewhat standard disco tracks on it. The artwork by Richard Burnstein (1939–2002) is what really blows me away. This stuff was done with photographs, photocopies, exacto blades, masks, pastels and airbrush. Its not perfect (you can see edges where the masks were cut and so on) and thats exactly what makes it. Maybe its just me, but its 100 more interesting to me than any overly-retouched art you may see today. Designers, myself included, spend so much time these days trying to make their stuff look like this, but no one takes the time to get out the pastels and exacto blades. Great craft, great era. I have it hanging up on the wall in my studio. Definitely inspirational when I feel like throwing my computer out of my window.
Posted on August 28, 2007 at 07:29 AM | Comment (1 comments)
