Design nerds from SoCal reading this ought to check out the art of Alex Steinweiss at the Robert Berman gallery in Santa Monica. Dude worked for Columbia Records and in 1939. I don’t think I own anything that old.

Steinweiss was, incidentally, the first album art designer ever. Unless you count that guy that did the artwork for the Soggy Bottom Boys recording in O’ Brother Where Art Thou?. You didn’t see it because it was lost in the flood.

[hat tip/photo credit: Found Track]