I love vintage Jamaican album art. Some of my favorite designs are (not-so-coincidentally) from JJ Records. Last week, John V, and I were discussing these fun 45 labels as well as his obsession with converting all Ska logos into vector based graphics.
John took these scans and whipped up this mash-up style label for me and SBB. In fact, this is the first bit of fan art made for Ska Blah Blah, and I couldn’t be more impressed!
Here’s the original scan followed by John’s redesign:
More Reggae and Ska album art sites:
Stir It Up (a book of Jamaican Album Art) Amazon Link
July 8th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Very col, JJ.
John Boy makes the rounds! first pressure drop podcast…now ska blah blah…
Now we just need to get him geared up to release a new Hoi Poloi!!!! – current issue is in production for 5 years runnin! : D
Just bustin your chops, jav.