Entertainment For Lively Minds
Introducing our artist in residence (who isn't actually here)
Posted by David Hepworth on 7 November 2007 - 11:03am.
We've had lots of readers asking about the illustrations on our Now Hear This CDs. They're all done by Yuko Shimizu, a Japanese artist and illustrator based in New York. The first few had already been done for another project when we saw them and thought they'd be the perfect thing for the CD cover. Since then she's done us a lot more. You can find out about Yuko's other work here. For those who like to have a cover to put into their iTunes window we provide a downloadable version of the latest one here and if you've missed any of the last few they're archived here. Now, be honest. Who else does this much for you?
Marvellous!
I was rather hoping that we'd get a little back story about the person behind the cover CD art. It's great stuff, and a cut above the other magazine-mounted offerings. Makes the magazine look that little bit more special on the rack.
Anyone have particular favourites? I'm fond of the shoulder-mounted boombox/fish tatoo affair from a couple of months back.
More info
If you follow the link above you can find out more about Yuko and her work.
And for that...
... I am grateful.
Artist "in residence"
I love the covers to your CDs, except that they all look a bit similar to the cursory glance. For someone with a filing system like mine ("it's somewhere in one of those piles"), this makes the CD required rather hard to locate without a tedious trial and error search every time. I'm simply not anal enough to adopt a orderly approach to CD filing. I realise (at long last) that it's unrealistic to expect the universe to be arranged to fit in with my personal failings, but I just thought I'd mention it...
yes please
These covers are fantastic, and some of the artwork on her site is even better. Thanks for this info. Now how about Word does a set of 4 prints of the best covers (without all the Word lettering)? I, for one, think they would make great framed pictures for my residence. Anyone else? Would be well worth it, IMHO.
Seconded
Perhaps this set of prints could form some kind of incentive to re-subscribe...
Having just started the
Having just started the mammoth task of ripping over 3000 cd's to a hard drive I need the Word CD artwork for all 47 or so that I have, and my ripping software (dbPoweramp) cannot find it - any thoughts ?
Covers
The once done since Yuko started are archived here: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/now-hear-cover-archive - the rest aren't online (at least not at this website). Yet.
Fantastic ! Many thanks
Fantastic !
Many thanks Fraser - much appreciated, and way better than anything my aged scanner might have given me, as it isn't working !
EDIT
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