Oh, no! Singers!
In this blog we have previously presented designs for album covers made by pioneers like the ones that Daniel Gil produced for Hispavox in his previous stage to Alianza Editorial (see previous post). The long play vinyl record format, due to its dimensions (31×31 centimetres), and its wide diffusion, constituted an ideal “canvas” for the...
“Christmas” pioneers
In 1953, Producciones Editoriales del Nordeste, PEN, published in its collection Books of the Unicorn, a small text book by Joan Josep Tharrats in which he made a tour of Christmas greetings in the form of postcards, Christmas cards, keepsakes, etc. From the miniatures of the Books of Hours to illustrations by Saul Steinberg, José...
Hispavox covers by Daniel Gil
Perhaps a lesser known (and unjustly recognised period) in the work of Daniel Gil is that of the years 1959 to 1966, when he worked on the visual style of the record label “Hispavox”. As with other areas of culture, the 60’s represented a graphic alarm call within a stagnant Spanish society. Seen today, the...