TS: Kompakt graphic design vs Perlon graphic design

kompakt seems a bit all over the shop these days. how about perlon vs cadenza...?

PERLON! PERLON! PERLON!

Most sizable labels have pretty good graphic design, but perlon has them all beat. I never got the uproar about the dot anyways.

Ps. Re Kompakt: http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/a/af/300px-Weisenhof-1927.jpg

uproar about the dot

is this a reference to the TOTAL covers?

all this records look really garish next to REAL minimal minimal techno minimal label art: pure plastic, ifach, trelik, etc

perlon over kompakt but sahko uber alles.

PROFAN is actually quite ill

hott

SUPER hott

ultimate perlon?

some of the perlon sleeves have been disgusting this year, that red/bogeygreen colour scheme they've been using is gross. i liked it when they were purple and black last year. check out the art for the new melchior productions album:

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=1136065

this thread definitely needs more images

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/8089/neuecd04wn7.jpg

http://www.infostuka.org/2007/8/16/will-saul-space-between
http://www.simplerecords.co.uk/#/releases

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/mn_passion_bushes.jpg

ihttp://www.scape-music.de/pics/release_pic/127_121.jpg

doh!

http://www.scape-music.de/pics/release_pic/127_121.jpg

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/9393/cs4921402abigcd1.jpg

sorry about that

the artwork for the new melchior is great!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drh000/h057/h05765gvo26.jpg

http://www.flowing.de/img/discog/honigpumpe.jpg

yikes

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r305/superflouis/ulflohmann.jpg

http://www.guiboratto.com.br/IMG/chromophobia-cover.jpg

for a little counter-programming, I've really enjoyed Circus Company's graphic design lately...

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS274901-01A-BIG.jpg

& Samim's Do You See the Light?

http://www.wordandsound.de/media/pic/44711.jpg

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS284836-01B-BIG.jpg

what is THAT?

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/284836-01.htm

Ha, Musiquee Risquee can be so kitschy and gaudy for such a good label! And he above is only the tip of the iceberg, the bruno pronsato one is another thread in itself.

I myself though about simple when first reading this thread, really nice stuff.

and also,(the wavy line isn't available on my keyboard)Scape! Probably better than the lot of techno labels (other than perlon, whose 'master your typography, and all else will follow' approach works to no end)

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/8101/7df4be786031489e6e61f05im6.gif

Is this turning into a thread for well designed covers of electronic albums, because in that case:

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-455270-1162318115.jpeg

I love the whole black and white photo on a solid plane style dial is using.

don't know why that didn't turn out, nevertheless I'll try again:

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-455270-1162318115.jpeg
and
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2007/efdemin_efdemin.jpeg

I, by the way, neer cared all that much for Profan. Could never take messy block writing of their logo seriously.

^^ agreed! Profan covers >>>> Profan logo

I'm not sure about Simple Records to be honest, it's all a bit too coffee table to me. Just like their music.

The Simple cover above was designed by Michael C Plaice ex-Designers Republic. I think they work their angle device and strong type quite well on their site and 12s.

It's not denying the professionalism, and it is well executed, but it just doesn't do much for me. Perlon I love, however.

perlon has some of the best record design around. i think it's done by double standards. it's changed a lot but the similarities between the early b+w/yellow and the newer olive/red sleeves are unmistakable. i also dislike the current olive/red color scheme. i read somewhere that they just print up a set number of them and only do a redesign when they run out. i guess this excludes the artist LPs, cause those are always different. so they are stuck with whatever bad idea they had six months ago.

sadly, i don't really like the cadenzas, although they reflect the music pretty well.

those profans are awesome.

and kompakt has a dot. it's barely distinctive and i wonder if the majority of record shoppers even notice the pattern. and when they use photos for album covers... remember dj koze? very inconsistent. i would say underdesigned.

circus company is on fire at the moment in both music and art design, this sleeve is awesome:

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS308624-01A-BIG.jpg

what album is that?

i'm also digging the karat graphic design, big pastel psychedelic cartoons:

http://images.juno.co.uk/full/CS289723-01A-BIG.jpg

serves as a nice antidote to the usual clean, tasteful and restrained kompakt/perlon esque design, must be a french thing (though bar 25 seems to be following a similar aesthetic)

xpost it is antislash "we are the copy and paste" ep