Reggae Record Album Jacket Art Collection: Stir It Up

Stir It Up
Reggae Album Cover Art

This book is a resource created relatively early, published in 1999. It's not just a collection of famous album covers compiled later, but rather a composition that conveys the atmosphere, DIY aesthetic, distribution, and production background of the time.

I feel that the book's appeal also lies in its perspective on album cover art, which is close to the atmosphere of the time.

While the text content isn't extensive, the composition emphasizes visuals, with relatively large images.

It offers an overview of graphic expressions unique to reggae, such as typography, color usage, the roughness of photographs, and improvisation. It was very helpful not only for music fans but also as a reference for graphic design and artwork.

Rather than a critique or a reading material, it's valuable as a visual reference collection for design, art, and record culture, and it was also useful as a resource for graphic design and artwork creation.

The names of illustrators, designers, and photographers are also listed.

■ Condition:
・Overall, there is some wear and tear.
・There are no problems with reading the text.
・Please understand that this is an old book.

※Please note that there may be minor scratches due to the book's age.
※Returns based on the condition are not accepted.

■ Supplement:
Personally, I find the works that have a sense of "looseness" and are difficult to imitate with just knowledge, rather than "sophisticated designs," very stimulating.

I am selling it to organize my materials, but I think it's a valuable book even now.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books Llc
Release Date ‏ : ‎ 1999/10/1
First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811826163
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811826167
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 26.04 x 0.64 x 26.67 cm

This book explores reggae culture through album cover art, documenting the visual language, typography, and DIY aesthetics surrounding reggae records.