Pop is Industrial
CD cover
CD cover
2013
Individual work
Covers and jackets
Individual work
Covers and jackets
As the 55th anniversary of Pop Art was coming up, I pitched an idea of making a cd with different tracks of music that sounds like it would have been played at a party in The Factory. All of the song names were plays on famous names or sayings during the pop movement.
I took the essence of a quote that Roy Lichtenstein said and turned it into the title of the album.
"Everybody has called Pop Art 'American' painting, but it's actually industrial painting. America was hit by industrialism and capitalism harder and sooner and its values seem more askew... I think the meaning of my work is that it's industrial, it's what all the world will soon become."
The title “Pop is Industrial” is what set the design for the sleeve. A hard, cold, industrial look for the outside, containing within itself, a heart of culture, Pop culture. The cd is colorful, like an Andy Warhol diptych. It symbolizes what is new emerging from the known common environment.
