Design your own LP cover for your band? Or just for your fantasy album? Sign up for the workshops and expo, a collaboration with Haarlem Vinyl Festival and Nieuwe Vide. (13-27 year)
Vinyl is extremely popular again today. Even among young people. Walk into a record store at any given time or visit a record fair, and you’ll definitely see teenagers and people in their twenties flipping through the crates. In some cases, these new record collectors don’t even own a record player, but they just want that beautiful album from their favorite artist.
Perhaps that’s the appeal of vinyl in the age of unlimited streaming—the physical aspect. Unlike a small image the size of your thumbnail, you have a large cover with beautiful artwork. Each cover is a work of art in itself. How would young people, who grew up with a phone in hand and AirPods in their ears, design such an album cover themselves? What do they think it should look like?
Under the guidance of a visual artist, you can work on your own album cover in 3 sessions!
You’ll learn about vinyl and the covers that go with it. The sessions are briefly structured as follows:
There’s room to continue working on your design in your own time in between sessions. Finally, the designs will be printed on real album covers.
During the Haarlem Vinyl Festival, September 27-29, the album covers will be exhibited at Flinty’s. The workshops all take place in September, and the exhibition is during the Haarlem Vinyl Festival from September 27-29. Participation is free.