Klaus Voormann was an undeniably creative and talented
person – being a musician, record producer, and even winning Grammy Awards. But
he is probably most known for designing artwork for popular bands, most famous
of them all being the frount cover for the Beatles record ‘Revolver’. This
happens to be one of my favourite album covers.
I love the collage effect and how Voormann’s line drawings
of each band member are mixed with the pictures taken by Robert Whitaker (who
produced many photographs of the Beatles during 1964 and 1966), as well as the plain
black-and-white colour scheme. It’s also worth noting how despite the insane
amount of detail with the tiny photos surrounding the thorough illustrations everything
looks unexpectedly simple from a visual standpoint. These elements help give
the artwork a very strong and memorable look.
Voormann would revisit his classic cover design decades
later when using it alongside various other images of Beatles albums in another
memorable music artwork: ‘The Beatles Anthology’ compilation series. Both of
these pieces use a heavy amount of collage in their creation and, in my
personal opinion, it is rather unsurprising to see how clearly the latter work
is influenced by Voormann’s previous creation.
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