Pen & Pixel
Pen & Pixel is a graphic design firm in Houston, Texas. Famous and infamous, it was the fact that they cover the many hip-hop albums designed, and so the appearance of hip-hop codetermination, 1990. The company is closely associated with the widespread advent of Bling Bling aesthetic. Billboard magazine called 2000 Pen & Pixel along with DJ Screw as the two lighthouses in the Houston hip- hop scene. Other companies that took the similar influence on the hip-hop aesthetics were Phunky Phat Graphics and Street Level Graphics.
History
Director Founded in 1992 are Aaron and Shawn custom custom which was art director for the Raplabel Rap -A-Lot before. Pen & Pixel is especially for artists of the Dirty South active, were among the early customers Master P and Tony Draper, and later, for example, Lyle Lovett, Selena, Dr. Dre, Three 6 Mafia. It was the official design studio of No Limit Records, and also designed almost all publications of Cash Money, Hypnotize Minds and Suave House. Overall, Pen & Pixel designed several thousand CD cover, along with the numerous imitators of the style dominated the created by Pen & Pixel style hip- hop magazines in the late 1990s.
Pen & Pixel was one of the first companies in hip hop that consistently Photoshop began, and it took advantage of all opportunities offered by the program. Spin magazine described the Pen & Pixel style in 1997 as a computer-generated images beyond good and evil, which stood out among others by the large number of designs of similar companies. For the Rolling Stone Album Cover Snoop Dogg was for album Da Game Is to Be Sold to the ideal type of a mass-produced ghetto -object d'art. By focusing on relatively low-cost computer graphics Pen & Pixel plays an important role especially for independent companies.
Vibe magazine in 2005 he took a Juvenile cover of Pen & Pixel in the list of 10 memorable album artwork on. In particular, the floating in the sky face of the artist influenced many covers that came after. Spin gives as examples a lowrider that was set on the bottom of a lake, rappers next to the Sphinx in Versace clothing next to a pimp in G- string thong, or two rappers who play on the moon Domino. In summer 2001, designed Pen & Pixel cover of a Houston rap group Inner City Hustlers with a picture of the exploding World Trade Center. After the attacks of September 11 brought them this is a visit to the FBI and the redemption of all cover.
The Spin magazine described the company as well as its limitations, ideas that have been proposed to them, but which they did not implement, was a pregnant woman with gun, racist violence, a jeep falling from the step of a woman, or crucified figures. While they wanted to show no exploding cars of competing rappers of the artist, them two rappers have successfully foisted on this subject. While Pen & Pixel started to produce CD cover, they expanded the program to the whole environment of the production of: by producing the actual CDs, via the production of promotional flyers, posters, and Merchandises.