in my generation, there were certain images that sparked the imagination. None were so thrilling to mine as the artwork of Shusei Nagaoka. I have just discovered that this was the man. It happened almost by accident.
At all of my remote assignments, I keep track of where I am and what city by changing my desktop wallpaper. Generally, it will be something iconic about the city. This last time around, I changed up because I had two screens. I saw that somebody else used the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon LP album cover for their desktop, and I thought that was pretty cool. So I thought, hmm, what's the coolest album cover ever? It was pretty simple. Earth Wind and Fire's All N All.
It turns out that Nagaoka also did the the Out of the Blue space station for ELO, and the legendary album cover for Jefferson Starship with the dragon holding the glowing sphere. Next to Star Wars and the space ships from Superman vs Muhammad Ali, these EWF album covers by Shusei were the epitome of my teenaged aesthetic.
It wasn't until the 80s that I got into Moebius and Geiger, despite Heavy Metal, the movie - but we could talk about that.
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