But that’s the thing about Nuvango – they’re essentially an extensive print shop that puts a focus on usable products and dazzling artwork.
It’s interesting that for a brand that started out focused on mobile devices, they’ve now expanded their line to include quite a few paper products too, like these new greeting cards. To learn more about their totally expanded and totally awesome range these days, read on. The reason? Their product line is so extensive – well past the thin skins they initially sold to trick out your phone – that it was time to look beyond that first product.
I’ve actually featured Nuvango before – but if you don’t recognize their name, that’s only because the brand has undergone a pretty big change in the past year from Gelaskins, to Nuvango. The fact is, change is usually for the better, as is the case with today’s featured brand, Nuvango. He collaborates with his wife, Cathy Fenner, on a wide variety of art books (including retrospectives devoted to Frank Frazetta, Dave Stevens, and Robert McGinnis among others) and the annual SPECTRUM: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.Times change, people change – a quote my husband likes to throw at me all the time. he's received medals from the Society of Illustrators, certificates from Communication Arts, and two World Fantasy Awards. While working in the corporate world, he has also (as time permitted) been a junior partner in the Jankus/Tiber advertising agency, served as art director for Mark Ziesing Books, been a small press publisher (of both books and magazines), and worked as a freelance illustrator and designer.įenner has produced many CD and book covers over the years for titles by everyone from Stephen King to Harlan Ellison to Bob Dylan to R.E.M. He was a Senior Artist for Hallmark Cards for 19 years, and for the last 14 has been the Senior Art Director for Andrews McMeel Publishing (part of Universal Press Syndicate). Before the arrival of big-box retailers, every town and city had “record stores”-most run either by the mob or hippies or sometimes both-jammed to capacity with racks of product priced at a couple of bucks a pop and the period of the 1960s to the early 1990s were the heyday for memorable album art.Īrnie Fenner has worn a number of hats in his career, sometimes several at once. Plain brown paper sleeves were replaced with full-color cardboard jackets early on most featured studio-pin-up style photos of the singers or bands, but they quickly evolved into more conceptual, expressive, and creative imagery, particularly for rock performers.
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Inexpensive and portable record players were followed by stereos and “Hi-Fis” with giant speakers and subwoofers as the Baby Boomers embraced rock’n’roll and bought singles and LPs of their favorites to play whenever they wanted. At the end of WWII that began to change as war-time technology and materials became increasingly translated into commercial applications. Until the mid-1940s the most popular method to listen to music, other than in person, was over the radio (the sound was much better than what was possible with a phonograph or gramophone) and the idea of buying music to play at home was something of a novelty.
Though phonographs and “records” have been around in one form or another for over a hundred and twenty years, the albums themselves (whether made of tin or shellac or, eventually, vinyl) originally came in brown paper sleeves without any art.