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Today's featured article Logo of Blue Note Records The album covers of Blue Note Records, an American jazz record label, have been recognized for their distinctive designs, which often feature bold colors, experimental typography, and candid photographs of the album's musicians, and are described as belonging to the Bauhaus and Swiss Style movements. In the early 1950s, artists like Gil Mellé, Paul Bacon, and John Hermansader designed Blue Note's earliest album covers. In 1956, Reid Miles was hired as Blue Note's art director, creating 400 to 500 covers with a unique style incorporating diverse typefaces and design principles such as asymmetry and tinting. After Miles left in 1967, artists like Mati Klarwein and Bob Venosa took over. Designers such as Norman Seeff and Bob Cato contributed in the 1970s, while Japanese artists created new covers for reissues in the late 1970s and 1980s. From the mid-1980s onward, artists like Paula Scher and Adam Pendleton have designed covers, with Miles's work in particular remaining highly influential. (Full article...) Recently featured: Gedling Town F.C. Mells War Memorial Justus Did you know... Sophie Anderson (top) and Rebecca More ... that The Cock Destroyers (pictured) released a trans-inclusive sex education video for Netflix before hosting Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer? ... that Northern Cypriot minister of health İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra warned that her country would be destroyed unless it started producing drugs? ... that the barracks at the Xifeng concentration camp were named for Confucian tenets such as righteousness and filial piety? ... that Nathania Ong had not seen Les Misérables before successfully auditioning for the role of Éponine? ... that "All Hell Breaks Loose", the last episode of Charmed to feature Shannen Doherty as Prue, was also directed by her? ... that a poem by Moses da Rieti includes an encyclopedia of the sciences, a Jewish paradise fantasy, and a post-biblical history of Jewish literature? ... that El Eternauta: tercera parte kept Héctor Germán Oesterheld, the creator of the original comic, as a narrator after he was disappeared? ... that the assassination of Fengshan resulted in a pun combining fried eggs and bombs?

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