We didn’t expect to receive so many entries! You have sent 182 designs in total, both as designers and as performers whose albums they accompanied. Thank you very much! Right now your entries are being uploaded to a special private cloud which will then be made available exclusively for the contest jury. Once they get familiar with the entries they are going to meet in order to select thirty covers for the follow-up exhibition as well as the winning entry.
We would like to announce who are the jurors. Apart from Mr Rosław Szaybo who is the head of the jury, the decision on who gets the Best Album Cover award will be taken by:
– Grzegorz Brzozowicz – music journalist,
– Wojciech Korkuć – poster designer and graphic artist,
– Krzysztof Kochnowicz – full professor at the University of Arts in Poznań, head of the Sign and Typography Studio,
– Stanisław Gruszczyński – originator of the Cover awArts online poll and founder of the portal Okladki.net,
– Marcin Kostaszuk – music journalist, acting director of the Department of Culture in the Poznań City Hall,
– Piotr Bernatowicz -director of the Municipal Gallery “Arsenał” in Poznań.
Dzięki Wam Konkurs rozwija się bardzo sprawnie i otrzymaliśmy już kilkadziesiąt zgłoszeń. Większość prezentuje bardzo wysoki poziom, co tylko utwierdza nas w przekonaniu, że pomysł na Konkurs “30 / 30” był trafną ideą.
Pod koniec kwietnia, w okresie festiwalu Spring Break, który również odbywa się teraz w Poznaniu, Konkurs promuje się załączoną niżej ulotką. Jeszcze raz dziękujemy Wam za zgłoszenia i prosimy o więcej (dajcie znać swoim znajomym grafikom i wytwórniom, bo polskie środowisko graficzne robi naprawdę świetne rzeczy).
Ulotkę zaprojektował pan Cezary Tyliński – poznański grafik, który jest również autorem logotypu Konkursu “30 / 30”.
Pobierz ulotkę: 30 30 ulotka
Time marches inexorably on, so we would like to remind you that only two weeks remain to submit entries for the best album cover competition entitled “30 / 30”. The deadline expires on 30 April at midnight. Designs together with the information about the album they illustrated, a link to one of the songs from the album, as well as details about the author should be sent via e-mail to [email protected].
For further information visit the contest website or contact the coordinator of the contest – Mr Georgi Gruew ([email protected], phone number: 502-351-575).
The winner (author of the best album cover) will receive a prize in money amounting to 5,000 PLN, while the thirty best album covers will be displayed on a follow-up exhibition (between 5 June and 28 June). Authors of the thirty best covers will also receive a reward amounting to 300 PLN.
We are waiting for your designs and wish you good luck! Splendour and glory are within your reach [and within the reach of your e-mail out-box]!
The best album cover contest entitled “30 / 30” is not the only event combining visual arts and music that is going to take place in the Municipal Gallery “Arsenał” within the next few months. On 17 April we open an extraordinary exhibition of stereoscopic photographs by Antoni Rut showing concerts in the ’80s. The exhibition presented through the Poznań Fotoplastykon (Kaiserpanorama) includes, among other photographs, pictures taken during the 1984 Iron Maiden gig (after which the band members in search of entertainment decided to play on a wedding in the restaurant “Adria”), the ’87 and ’89 editions of the Metalmania Festival and the Rock Arena Festival in 1985. The photographs also show concerts by Thomas Anders (following the first break-up of Modern Talking) and Kajagoogoo, back then an extremely popular band.
The second significant event is the exhibition of vinyl album covers designed by Rosław Szaybo and Stanisław Zagórski which starts on 8 June. The two outstanding representatives of the so-called Polish School of Posters first met at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the ’50s. In the next decade they both left the Polish People’s Republic and made careers as designers creating covers for the most famous bands and record labels.
In the early ’60s Stanisław Zagórski emigrated to the USA. He worked for advertising agencies, designed posters and book covers. At the same time he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1964 he began to cooperate with the Atlantic Records and the Columbia Records. Over the next thirty years Zagórski designed covers for albums by the greatest pop stars (Aretha Franklin, Robert Flack, Velvet Underground, Cream, Cher) and jazz stars (Miles Davis, Roland Kirk, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Billy Cobham, Charles Lloyd, Michał Urbański).
Robert Szaybo, born in Poznań, moved to London towards the end of 1966. He got recognition as an author of posters, book covers and album covers when he was still in Poland. He designed posters related to the film industry, social campaigns and entertainment: in 1964 he designed a poster entitled “20 lat cyrku w Polsce” (“20 years of circus in Poland”) which caused panic among the policy-makers of the time when it was printed. The slogan was eventually changed to “20 lat areny polskiej” (“20 years of the Polish arena”). He initiated the famous series entitled “Polish Jazz”. After leaving the country he began to cooperate with record labels. Between 1972 and 1988 he occupied the position of the artistic director at the London-based CBS record label. It was there that he designed album covers for artists such as Judas Priest, The Clash, Chicago, Mott the Hopple, Elton John, Roy Orbison, Carlos Santana, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel.
The exhibition in “Arsenał” presents 50 album covers designed by both artists. A music journalist Grzegorz Brzozowicz is the curator of the exhibition. The preview will be followed by the screening of the film entitled “Przyjacele na 33 obroty” and a discussion with Rosław Szaybo led by Grzegrz Brzozowicz.
Z przyjemnością informujemy, że dołączają do nas nowi partnerzy. Tym razem jest to firma fonograficzna DUX, która znana jest wydawania nagrań muzyki klasycznej i poważnej (często w niezwykle nowatorskich wykonaniach). Wszystkim naszym patronom serdecznie dziękujemy za wsparcie i za zainteresowanie konkursem. Bez Was ten konkurs nie rozwijałby się tak dobrze, jak do tej pory i ma realną szansę stać się ważnym, corocznym wydarzeniem integrującym środowisko muzyczne z plastycznym. Tylko razem możemy wygenerować naprawdę dobrą energię!
