From an envelope to an art-object - half a century of vinyl

In the last 50 years, the vinyl sleeve has developed from perfunctory packaging to art-object. Discussing the different phases the design these iconic ‘envelopes’ have gone through is Valery Posternak, a devoted collector of vinyl, who produced his own album with the band Colney Hatch in the 1990s. Amongst other questions, Posternak will consider: what is happening to vinyl sleeves now? What are the differences between American and British designs? How were album sleeves decorated in the Soviet Union?

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Valery Posternak - collector of vinyl, music journalist, art director of Ikra club, first head editor of Billboard magazine (Russian edition).