Applied Art: LPs
The size of the 33 rpm record, a square of a bit more than 30 cm, offers a lot of opportunities for designers. Since vinyl records are a commercial product, visual attractiveness is important. The design of LPs with classical music is usually very traditional and contains a lot of text. Roughly one can say that the cover is either a reproduction of a painting or a portrait of the soloist or composer. But it can be different. The text on the cover designed by Octave Landuyt is limited so that it approaches a graphic work. Also nice is the op-art effect of the covers of Prospective 21st siècle with recordings of Les Percussions de Strassbourg. These covers say clearly: "What you see, is what you hear”, namely new, contemporary music, even a bit metallic.