Section 3 · 5 plates
Sleeve Design
The design language of independent electronic music sleeves — who made them, how, and on what budget.
Plate 3.00 — Screen Print On Grey Board. Photo: Brett Jordan / Pexels
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Plate 3.01
Screen-Print on Grey Board
The constraint that made the look
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Plate 3.02
The Company Sleeve and Its Variants
When no printed sleeve exists, the record still has to go somewhere.
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Plate 3.03
Desktop Publishing on a Pressing Budget
When the Mac Arrived in the Sleeve Studio
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Plate 3.04
When the Type Was Not Meant to Be Read
Illegible sleeve design in British electronic music was not a failure of communication. It was a refusal of it.
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Plate 3.05
Blank Sleeves, Rubber Stamps, and the Promo Copy
What a white bag with a stamped address reveals about how a pressing actually moved through the chain
Plate 00 · Elsewhere