On the innovators who created Cuba’s national musical identity.
One facet of design that has always interested me is the artwork that graces the covers of music discs and records. There are great many ways to grab someone’s attention, to get them to pick up that album and listen.
In this research project, I explored the community of graphic artists and musicians who had their hands in la cubanidad, or the distinct Cuban-ness of the Salsa genre of Latin-American music. Artists like Izzy Sanabria and Walter Velez produced countless albums and posters, many of which found their way to the New York music scene in the 1960’s and 70’s and influenced a whole new generation of designers.
This research project was published in the first edition of the text Parallel Narratives, a compendium of bibliographies produced by design students at Cornish College of the Arts, and edited by Natalia Ilyin and Elizabeth Patterson.
La Cubanidad it appears published in Parallel Narratives.
