Reid miles biography

During this period he designed almost record covers for the label. The package weighs 26 pounds, not an easy task for the scrawny teenager I was back then. I remember vividly how I after arriving tear apart the package, took out all the gleaming parts, put them together, and the great enthusiasm and eagerness I felt inside. I also remember how I connected the turntable to the speakers and played the first vinyls I had picked up months earlier.

Seventeen years later, that same turntable still looks and works like a brand new thing. It was and still is an amazingly well built piece. I feel the same about the work of Reid Miles. He was a genius, ahead of his time, and the way he treated the typography as visual elements that can be broken apart and form something new still feels fresh.

Slowly through the years the jazz music and artworks of these 12 " records became the main source of inspiration for me.

Reid miles typography

He told in a series of interviews that he did it because of a girl who he was dating at the time. Bill education benefits. To him, it felt like a better idea to go to an easy art school than somewhere else.