Reid Miles

Reid Miles (* 1927 in Chicago, † 1993) was an American designer / graphic artist who worked in New York from the early 1950s. He gained his work for the jazz label Blue Note Records, for which he designed around five hundred album covers in 15 years and so an indelible impression was made on the design of the 20th century Great awareness.

Unlike today's CD covers the surface of an LP cover was a designer such as Miles from a sufficiently large canvas that he could use excellent. He combined photography, color and typography as it had never seen someone and embodied with this abstract, searching for innovation symbolism in an elegant way the "coolness " of the music contained in the envelopes.

Miles worked closely with the co-owner of Blue Note and photographer Francis Wolff, who gave him - provided images of jazz musicians - often recorded on the road. Miles cut this very closely and used them either very large or very small, placed them in unusual angles on the surface and combined them with large, thick blocks of color. These added the artist, who had a good eye for fonts, mostly large, sans serif block letters which will then, he has probably cast in metal and photographically enlarged or reduced.

Amazingly, Miles liked jazz music is not particularly - he preferred classical music. Miles the recordings sounded Never, but drew his inspiration from conversations with Alfred Lion, founder of Blue Note Records.

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