Look What Happens When You Hold David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ Album Sleeve Up To Sunlight
The Vinyl Factory has revealed, by way of this Reddit user, that if you expose the thin sheet of paper behind the die-cut star on the vinyl sleeve for David Bowie‘s chart-topping final album Blackstar to the sun, a constellation of gold stars eventually appears. Jonathan Barnbrook designed the album art for Blackstar, as well as Bowie’s previous albums Heathen, Reality and The Next Day.
“This was a man who was facing his own mortality,” Barnbrook said in an interview with Dezeen. “The Blackstar symbol [★], rather than writing ‘Blackstar’, has as a sort of finality, a darkness, a simplicity, which is a representation of the music. It’s subsided a bit now, but a lot of people said it was a bullshit cover when it came out, that it took five minutes to design. But I think there is a misunderstanding about the simplicity.”
Did you pick up a vinyl copy of Bowie’s 2016 album? Looks like you’ve got a new trick to try out, if so…once the sun finally comes out again.
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