swell maps

I dug this lovely old thing out when I was making this muxtape. But I'd forgotten how much I loved this cover. I bought it before I'd ever been to New York (or London much) but both were evoked so completely by the maps on the cover, and the contrasts between them - the New York grid and the London mess.

The design is credited to Red Ranch, who also did the Street Sounds Electro stuff, apparently, but I can't find much else out about them. There's probably a whole thing to be done about record covers featuring maps, but the only other one I can think of is the inner sleeve of Tormato by Yes.

Comments

[davidthedesigner]

'Metro Music' by Martha and the Muffins, designed by Peter Saville. You'll find it in the 1981 D&AD Annual.

[Dino]

Wow, thanks Russell for the link to the Street Sounds stuff!
The cover design was so great.

[neil]

You're forgetting the eno ambient series: music for airports, on land, etc, which all have maps on the cover.