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COVER (FLOW)
A collaboration between University of Liverpool and Leeds Beckett University
Final year Graphic Arts & Design students from Leeds Beckett University have been exploring the fantastic Institute of Popular Music archive of LPs to investigate record sleeve designs across genres and generations. Using digital software, the students have started to alter some designs from the archive, adding or removing letters, characters and shapes to invite us to re-think what an LP sleeve can be.
Students from the Music Department have responded to these reworked designs with a series of texts that introduce us to the notion of altering history to better understand our present. For this presentation, a set of 56 altered designs have been edited together in the form of the ‘cover flow’ first used by iTunes to let us skip between them as the associated texts scroll gently by their side like contemporary sleevenotes.
Co-ordinated by Dr Marion Leonard and Dr Alan Dunn.
LBU students: Daisy Alleno-Powell, Brandon Lea, David Marshall, Hugh Roberts and Alicia Milton.
IPM students: Lily Cassell, Jeanna Colhoun, Charlie Cowburn, Caroline Foot, Yidan Gao, Charlotte Hughes, Tom Moreton, Erin Murphy and Sam Taylor.
List of altered sleeves:
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