Not All Was Bad In 1939

In 1939 (some sources say 1938) young Alex Steinweiss(born 1917) invented the record picture sleeve. In his career he designed about 2500 of them untill he retired in 1972 at age 55 (some sources say he retired from designing record sleeves in 1970). Taschen has just published a 416 pages book of his work, limited to 1500 copies, you can get for 300,- Euros: TASCHEN. More info on Steinweiss and examples of his art can be found here STEINWEISS or here(Article in German) STEINWEISS 2. Above btw you see the world's first picture sleeve. Not bad at all for a start I think.