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Damien Saunder\u2019s book about maps on record covers, Maps on Vinyl<\/a><\/em>, got a writeup in the Guardian<\/em> last week.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Some designs address global social or environmental issues. Others map the mind, imaginary places, feelings, worldviews\u2014or, in the case of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno\u2019s The Equatorial Stars, deep space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among Saunder\u2019s personal favourites is a sleeve from the long-gone Iowa alt rock band House of Large Sizes, showing a cake whose icing is decorated with a map, with a chunk missing. \u201cIt\u2019s a commentary on how we\u2019re consuming the world piece by piece, almost without noticing,\u201d says Saunder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another favourite cover comes from Belgian punk band Hetze: an illustration of a globe dangling by a thread from the forefinger of an elegant, long-nailed hand, by tattoo artist Florence Roman.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Previously: Maps on Vinyl<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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