Blue Note Album Covers in Motion

design by: Director Bante (real name Stefano Tinti)

Something different this time - video tribute to the legacy of Reid Miles one of the most talented graphic designers in the early music industry.
Miles was hired in his own right by Francis Wolff of the jazz record label Blue Note to design album covers from about 1955, when the label began releasing their recordings on 12" LPs. Miles designed several hundred covers, frequently incorporating the session photographs of Francis Wolff and, later, his own photographs, although many of his later designs dispensed entirely with photographs.[1]
For the promotion of a series of summer jazz concerts at the Bella Vista Social Pub in Siena, Director Bante re-imagines some of the more important jazz album covers as moving pictures and manages to make them come to life.
If you are unfamiliar with Reid’s design work for Blue Note, below You can find a side by side comparison of the reimagined covers with the original album art.