T-shirt design for Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips' 13 Most Beautiful... project features the first names of some of Andy Warhol's Screen Test subjects. Available on their website this Summer.
I was just interviewed for a forthcoming book titled StereoTyped: Hip-Hop's Unsung Graphic Design Heroes, Heroines & the Oral & Visual Histories of the Rap Record (1979-1989). I had almost completely forgotten about the Kurtis Blow cover designs for America and If I Ruled The World from 1985. Photos of Mr. Blow by one of my favorite photographers, Deborah Feingold, and collage by one of my favorite illustrators, Stephen Kroninger.
Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips's 13 Most Beautiful... Songs For Andy Warhol's Screen Tests deluxe limited edition double CD will be released July 27. Product details and ordering information can be found on their website. Pre-orders will receive an 11 x 17 poster.
FRANK OLINSKY is a graphic designer, art director, and illustrator. He was instrumental in the creation of the chameleonlike logo and “look” of MTV and has created album packages for many noteworthy musicians including the Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass. The founding art director, cover designer and creative consultant of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Olinsky is also the co-author/designer of What The Songs Look Like: Contemporary Artists Interpret Talking Heads Songs and author/designer of Buddha Book: A Meeting of Images. He teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York.