Hello. This online gallery showcases a cross-section of design work produced for album covers, books, single sleeves and DVD packaging. There’s recent work here plus a few old favourites too.

I’m exhibiting my latest limited edition artworks at this year’s TELEGRAPH HAY FESTIVAL here in Hay-on-Wye deep in the Welsh Marches from 31st May until 10th June. If you’re planning on coming to the Festival do come along and say hello. It would be great to see you. This year’s Festival has some fantastic people appearing from Tim Minchin to Gavin Turk, Monty Don to Michael Morpurgo, Boris Johnson to Susan Greenfield and plenty more. There are talks, literature and poetry, films, comedy, art and design, green issues, wonderful children’s activities and some great music.

To find out more click on the Festival logo.

QUADROPHENIA : DIRECTOR’S CUT Super Deluxe Edition, which includes the remastered album and Pete Townshend’s original demos plus the 5.1 surround sound mixes, sounds fabulous. There’s also some fantastic unseen material included in the package, including a 100-page hardback book with a 13,000-word essay by Pete, plus facsimiles of some of his archive items, the 7-inch single of ‘5.15’ and the original 20” x 30” promotional poster.

I must say it was a real treat to have access to Pete’s archive of original handwritten song lyrics, recording notes, studio diary, mixing notes and his original concepts and to see how it all developed in to the final album. It’s also available as a 2-disc deluxe edition, a digital download and a fully-restored double vinyl LP (remember them?).  Full details here 

BIOGRAPHY

THE ART OF THE ALBUM COVER celebrates seven decades of sleeve design from the early covers of Alex Steinweiss in the 1940s, through the Cool Jazz of the Fifties, the pop and psychedelic revolution of the Sixties, the golden age of the album cover in the Seventies, the New Wave of the Eighties, the Britpop and grunge years of the Nineties, and the iPod generation of the Noughties.

Says the blurb on the back cover: “Author and designer Richard Evans has been art  director for The Who for over 35 years and has designed album covers for a diverse range of music genres. Here he celebrates the art of the album cover and reveals many of the background stories in the creation of classic sleeves, from Rodgers & Hart to Lady Gaga and everything in between; from The Beatles to Oasis, Bowie to Blur, Pink Floyd to Pearl Jam, and Nat King Cole to Coldplay.”

Digital templates are available to download from the book’s own dedicated website and, with the tips and information in THE ART OF THE ALBUM COVER, you can use them to create your own album covers.

THE ART OF THE ALBUM COVER

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One recent project I really enjoyed working on was this fabulous ten-disc box set of Louis Armstrong for Universal Music.

SATCHMO: LOUIS ARMSTRONG, AMBASSADOR OF JAZZ, is the most comprehensive compilation of Louis Armstrong’s work, from his early days with King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band right through to his last recordings made just before his death in 1971.

I designed the outer case to look like one of Satch’s old crocodile-skin travel cases. Inside there are ten CDs in replica 78rpm sleeves and LP sleeves, plus a 200-page hardback book, fully illustrated with rare and unseen material from Louis’s personal archive at the Louis Armstrong House Museum in New York City. In the box you will also find a detailed track-by-track booklet and some replicas of Satchmo’s original band scores complete with his margin notes and three of his most famous hits.

Take a look at the rest of the package here  or click on the case.