The album covers of Blue Note Records, an American jazz record label, have been recognized for their distinctive designs, which often feature bold colors, experimental typography, and candid photographs of the album's musicians, and are described as belonging to the Bauhaus and Swiss Style movements. In the early 1950s, artists like Gil Mellé, Paul Bacon, and John Hermansader designed Blue Note's earliest album covers. In 1956, Reid Miles was hired as Blue Note's art director, creating 400 to 500 covers with a unique style incorporating diverse typefaces and design principles such as asymmetry and tinting. After Miles left in 1967, artists like Mati Klarwein and Bob Venosa took over. Designers such as Norman Seeff and Bob Cato contributed in the 1970s, while Japanese artists created new covers for reissues in the late 1970s and 1980s. From the mid-1980s onward, artists like Paula Scher and Adam Pendleton have designed covers, with Miles's work in particular remaining highly influential.
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1914:
Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces at the Battle of El Herri in Morocco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_El_Herri
1963:
A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanz%C5%8D_Nosaka
1966:
Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samu_incident
1974:
Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_DeFeo_Jr.
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pay through the nose: (idiomatic) To pay an exorbitant or excessive amount, either in money or in some other manner. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pay_through_the_nose
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times. --Augustine of Hippo https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo