For The Record #6: Kate Moross

Link: Kate Moross
Link: Studio Moross
Link: Stiff Records
Link: Design Manchester 13
Link: Paul Gorman's Reasons to be Cheerful book


Ahead of her talk at Design Manchester 13 tomorrow (alongside Malcolm Garrett, Peter Saville and Mark Farrow, no less), Kate Moross selects the Kandinsky-inspired 1977 work by Barney Bubbles for The Damned's Music For Pleasure as her personal favourite sleeve.

"I didn't know what it was when I first found it but I loved it immediately," she says. "Some people will obviously know about Barney Bubbles but I still don't think he's had the recognition that he deserves. Not when you consider the amount of great work he did.

"I've got to know Bubbles' biographer Paul Gorman and he's said that he sees some of him in me. Not necessarily in terms of our styles... but it's a huge compliment."

Kate Moross' own book, Make Your Own Luck, is published by Prestel April 2014.

Manchester Confidential also has a feature on Design Manchester 13.

Sam and the Womp - 'Bom Bom' artwork by Danke

Link: Danke
Link: Stiff Records 

Artwork for a new addition to the roster of Stiff Records: the seminal label responsible for signing the likes of Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. The aesthetic for the single is tied to the brash festival-like qualities of the track [a kind of Balkan, Bestival-bound 'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag'] and also incorporates a new Stiff logo. The latter was also used earlier this year on packshots for the digital release of Tenpole Tudor's 1981 hit 'Swords of a Thousand Men'.