It was actually amazingly interesting pulling out the 12" vinyl albums and marvelling at the sheer detail in the wonderful artwork on some of the albums.
Absolutely, I remember studying all the glyphs on the Powerslave sleeve and obsessing over the details on the back of Somewhere In Time, the artwork was incredible. I used to paint leather jackets for pocket money when I was at college and Maiden designs were really popular so I've copied my fair share of Eddies, mostly the designs from Killers and the Purgatory 7"
What happened though? I presume Derek Riggs isn't doing the sleeves any more as the art style is completely different from what I've seen.
Rod_S wrote:What happened though? I presume Derek Riggs isn't doing the sleeves any more as the art style is completely different from what I've seen.
Riggs fell out with Maiden, and Maiden fell out with Riggs.
I have to admit from having chatted with Rod Smallwood (namedropping ) when we did the remasters and talking about the reworking of the No Prayer for the Dying cover I could see how working for Maiden could be pretty tough. Rod was very very specific about what would and would not be in the final artwork.
In fact if you look at the artwork for Brave New World you will see that the eddie in the clouds was actually drawn by Riggs, and comped into artwork by someone else to get the end result.
Zotmeister wrote:Not that I have anything against this moobaa person, or that I'd change my avatar to taunt him, but if I did wish him ill will, I'd wait until he makes a comment about the avatars - at which point you KNOW he's noticed - and THEN change YakYak to CatCat for 48 hours or so to really rub it in. That would be so mean. - ZM
It's all tongue-in-cheek I might mind you. I don't have anything personally against him either. He's one of our top forum members!
sty wrote:
I have to admit from having chatted with Rod Smallwood (namedropping ) when we did the remasters and talking about the reworking of the No Prayer for the Dying cover I could see how working for Maiden could be pretty tough. Rod was very very specific about what would and would not be in the final artwork.
In fact if you look at the artwork for Brave New World you will see that the eddie in the clouds was actually drawn by Riggs, and comped into artwork by someone else to get the end result.
Interesting. Has Smallwood always had that kind of control over the visuals?
sty wrote:
I have to admit from having chatted with Rod Smallwood (namedropping ) when we did the remasters and talking about the reworking of the No Prayer for the Dying cover I could see how working for Maiden could be pretty tough. Rod was very very specific about what would and would not be in the final artwork.
In fact if you look at the artwork for Brave New World you will see that the eddie in the clouds was actually drawn by Riggs, and comped into artwork by someone else to get the end result.
Interesting. Has Smallwood always had that kind of control over the visuals?
reading between the lines, YES.
He was very specific about what he wanted where on various album covers.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure he took his brief from Steve Harris and the band as to what the album was about and then simply managed the relationship with the artists, the tour set designers etc.
But they are definately a band with a very strong idea about what they are all about and what they want!
He was very specific about what he wanted where on various album covers.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure he took his brief from Steve Harris and the band as to what the album was about and then simply managed the relationship with the artists, the tour set designers etc.
But they are definately a band with a very strong idea about what they are all about and what they want!
In that case he's done an amazing job over the years, look at the amount of merchandising they've sold based on the artwork. The way they integrated it into the live shows was fun too. What a job
Zotmeister wrote:Not that I have anything against this moobaa person, or that I'd change my avatar to taunt him, but if I did wish him ill will, I'd wait until he makes a comment about the avatars - at which point you KNOW he's noticed - and THEN change YakYak to CatCat for 48 hours or so to really rub it in. That would be so mean. - ZM
It's all tongue-in-cheek I might mind you. I don't have anything personally against him either. He's one of our top forum members!
Oh, I don't doubt that. I was just covering my ass in case my idea were to be actually employed. - ZM
Darkness lessons learned/Avenging golden tresses/Yellow flower blooms
- "(dedicated to Millia Rage)", original haiku
Just a thought...if he's bookmarked yakyak.org rather than Bleatings, won't he immediately be alerted by the 'new posts in this board' sign on the Archive?
Or shall we just hope he doesn't notice?
Seems to be cutting it rather fine, anyhoo...you lot better move it in time, or we'll like like a right bunch of nancies
Rod_S wrote:In that case he's done an amazing job over the years, look at the amount of merchandising they've sold based on the artwork. The way they integrated it into the live shows was fun too. What a job
yeah, huge respect.
I've always thought of Iron Maiden as a well branded band.
very stromg Logo Management (they have tweaked it once or twice)
Eddie is a corporate icon. etc. etc.
They really understand, and express regularly their values etc.
) when we did the remasters and talking about the reworking of the No Prayer for the Dying cover I could see how working for Maiden could be pretty tough. Rod was very very specific about what would and would not be in the final artwork.
