Carin Goldberg, Who Transformed Book and Album Cover Design, Dies at 69

She was part of a vanguard of women designers who looked to the past to upend the cool modernism of the ’70s with a style that would become prominent in the ’80s. Carin Goldberg played off her knowledge of antique designs and typefaces to create elegant and witty combinations. Carin Goldberg, a graphic designer who brought an inventive postmodern sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, N.Y., in Dutchess County. She was 69. Her husband, the architect James Biber, said the cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor. Ms. Goldberg, who had trained as a painter, was a scholar of designs and typefaces, particularly those of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which she reimagined in elegant and witty combinations on the covers of hundreds of albums and thousands of books. She designed covers for best sellers — her cover for Oliver Sacks’s “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” resembles a 17th-century title page — and for more esoteric fare, like Rilke’s “The Sonnets to Orpheus,” for which she channeled the vintage typography of the Viennese decorative arts movement Wiener Werkstätte. For Madonna’s first album, in 1983, she framed the young singer’s face with her name, the O’s slyly rendered in red. Her covers for classical music albums were distinguished by “an airy open style that balanced ornament and white space,” Ellen Lupton, curator emerita at the Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, which has more than two […] Credit…Luise Stauss

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