Blue Tang

Not sure if you’ve seen this yet, but this designer named Logan Walters created a bunch of re-imagined Wu-Tang album covers that are super well executed and kind of funny. He took ten of their many group and solo releases and reimagined them as Blue Note covers: a simple idea, well-executed.

I like his description for why he did this: A little while ago I put a bunch of Wu-Tang… albums on my computer. 21 of them, in fact. I inherited some mild OCD from my mom, and as anyone who has seen my iTunes can attest to, it manifests itself in weird ways. I need to have decent-quality album art for every album on my computer, which currently equals over 90 gigs. The problem was that almost all of the Wu-Tang album art was horrible (ODB’s two albums being the only real exceptions) — no offense to the original designers, but as iconic as they might be they’re looking pretty dated these days. So, armed with inspiration from what Olly Moss and others are doing (as written about by me here, and later by Kottke here) and a book of Blue Note Records covers, I set out to remake all 21.

—DJ Yeti