Blue note jazz

Blue Note is an iconic jazz label, so we've put together a list of its greatest albums. Check out our picks from the label's catalogue here.

Reid Miles was an American modernist designer, a genius of his time, best known for his work for Blue Note Records through the 1950’s and 60’s. During this period he designed almost 500...

Reid Miles was an American modernist designer, a genius of his time, best known for his work for Blue Note Records through the 1950’s and 60’s. During this period he designed almost 500...

Some Blue Note artists: (l-r) Art Blakey, Hank Mobley, Herbie Hancock x2, Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter

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Upon the celebration of International Jazz Day we take a trip down the memory lane with the acclaimed typographic revolution of Reid Miles for Blue Note Records. With his stunning visual design Reid Miles, the Chicago born graphic designer and photographer brought the typography into the music genre of jazz. After working in New York City in the early 1950s for John Hermansader and Esquire magazine...

Clarendon in Use

Jazz album covers by record labels such as Blue Note and Verve were pretty cool and well designed when they were originally released. However designer Jeff Rochester from America has recently picked some classic album covers like Blue Train by John Coltrane, Time Out by Dave Brubeck and Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and given them a reworking – Nice

Graphic artist John Hermansader provides a direct link between early European modernist thought and a later mid-century icon of American modernism. Hermansader was born in 1916 near Reading, Pennsylvania. 3 years later Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany. Hermansader, probably in his late-teens or early-20s, went to Memphis to study design (possibly at the Memphis Academy of Arts). The Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925 and then to Berlin in 1932 before being closed due to…