mid-century album covers designed by George Giusti

(via Aqua-Velvet)

collection of vintage photographs of the interiors of HMV record store in 1960s London

(via Vice via Voices of East Anglia, above photo via hmv_getcloser)

Osiris Mountain by Hollis Brown Thornton

(via 20x200)

Beatles VI (1966) record spinning print

(more of Grandpa’s Records photographed by Paul Octavious)

vintage celebrity mug shots

(via How to be a Retronaut, more musicians via The Smoking Gun)

adorable “Paper Record Player” wedding invitation designed by Kelli Anderson

“…The hand-spun record yields a garbled, but scrutable listening of a original song by the couple. It requires a bit of tinkering and folding —effectively championing the inner science-nerd kid in the recipient. The whole thing serves as an interactive packaging for the song—which can be experienced on the paper record player, unscrewed + set on a regular turntable, or enjoyed online…” —Kelli Anderson

40 sad, quiet photographs of shuttered record stores

(above photograph by Jeff Msangi via buzzfeed)

“What If Your Favorite Album Was a Book?,” spoof cover designs inspired by rock albums reinterpreted by Christophe Gowans

(more via Mother Jones)

Center Of Attention is the online personal collection of  Simon Foster’s vintage record center labels. Though the site has a neat arrangement of record album sleeves, the colorful array of graphics, logos and art on the 7” center labels made this resource unique. If only it also included the names of the designers behind them…

(first discovered via grain edit)

new posters and updated site from Jason Munn, a.k.a. The Small Stakes
(above 3 color Ben Gibbard screen print is for sale)

Project C-90, international designs for cassette tapes
(first discovered via Aisle One via Monoscope)

“graphically wonderful, generic 45 sleeves from the collection of” Tim Cronin
(via Spine Out)

Design = music
(article via idsgn)

round-up of “50 Years of Typography in Album Covers”
(above designed by Alex Steinweiss, via Psdtuts+)