Hard Format
11/08/08 17:18 Filed in: web
It’s good to see hardformat.org up and
running again. The pet project of one of my
colleagues at Cocoa, Justin Amphlett and a
mate Colin (BBC, EleventhVolume), it has
suffered some server problems recently (not
ours I hasten to add) but now seems solid.
quote:
“It seems like everybody’s talking about the end of physical music media. Who knows whether they’re right or not, but Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like. However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now. In fact, we’re not setting ourselves up to supply a canon of classic design - this is a place where we record stuff we like, if you want yet another reproduction of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band there are enough ‘Greatest album covers of all time’ books out there already.
Oh and who knows, perhaps at some point in the future we may even need to set up a parallel site to celebrate brilliant virtual design…”
quote:
“It seems like everybody’s talking about the end of physical music media. Who knows whether they’re right or not, but Hard Format is a little place we’ve set up to celebrate our love of brilliant music-related design. That means we’re going to focus on records, CDs, cassettes and their like. However, Hard Format isn’t intended to become a dusty museum devoted exclusively to past glories, though there’ll certainly be some of that, we also want to highlight the brilliant new design work being produced right now. In fact, we’re not setting ourselves up to supply a canon of classic design - this is a place where we record stuff we like, if you want yet another reproduction of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band there are enough ‘Greatest album covers of all time’ books out there already.
Oh and who knows, perhaps at some point in the future we may even need to set up a parallel site to celebrate brilliant virtual design…”
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