series of editorials on prominent designers
through 12 glorious years, american designer reid miles created over 500 LP covers for the jazz label blue note records.
some of the covers represent the absolute gold standard of modernist typography and are widely recognized as the best-designed record sleeves in the history of jazz.

Reid Miles, 1970s
© Blue Note Records.
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born in Chicago
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enrolls at the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles
Chouinard Art Institute. © California Institute of the Arts.

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moves to New York
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starts working at Esquire magazine
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hired as principal LP artwork designer by Blue Note
Co-founder of Blue Note Records Alfred Lion and photographer Francis Wolff. © Francis Wolff / Blue Note Records.

Jimmy Smith—At The Organ (Volume 3), 1956.














