NZ Album Art Here's a couple of links that highlight some of the fantastic cover art that has been produced in New Zealand over the last 40 or so years.

RE:COVERED - A history of New Zealand music cover design - a project put together by Kelvin Hayes - features artwork from albums by Fur Patrol, David Kilgour, Split Enz and many more. Kelvin asks the questions...

What is New Zealand design? Does it have its own identity?
Or is it simply a cross section of outside influences, borrowed ideas and what is fashionable at any given time?
This project stems from my last visit in 2001 and aims to celebrate the visual work of the soundtrack to what is still a young country.

Well worth checking out, even if the resolution of the scanned cover art is a little on the low side.

Much more high-res, and a larger collection too, is the one over at at the NZ Design Archives. This is an impressive collection of cover art from the Flying Nun label, a couple of hundred 7" single covers (dating back to the 60s), and 12" releases (around fifty or so), and smaller selections of Pacific Island (don't quite know if that Weeds 7" really belongs in that category, but there ya go), Maori, Rugby-Themed, and, err, Kiri Te Kanawa covers.

Thanks to Jessie and <spak> (via a thread at nzmusic.com) for making me aware of those links.
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