“I love music so much and I had such ambition that I was willing to go way beyond what the hell they paid me for. I wanted people to look at the artwork and hear the music. ” —Alex SteinweissAlex Steinweiss (1917–2011) invented the album cover as we know it. In 1940, asColumbia Records’ young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months its record sales increased by over 800 per cent. Over the next three decades, Steinweiss made thousands of original artworks for classical, j Steinweiss - Alex Steinweiss, Kevin Reagan, Steven Heller od authora Alex Steinweiss, Kevin Reagan, Steven Heller a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.