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Example #5 — Inspiration for album cover art: The Russian avant-garde & Constructivism

Top Left: Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg. Noyvi Mir, magazine poster. 1926.

Top Right: Kraftwerk. Man-Machine, album cover art. 1978.

Bottom: Franz Ferdinand. The Fallen, single release cover. UK, Domino Records. February 2006.

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Like the music group Kraftwerk, Franz Ferdinand drew their influence for their cover art from a 1926 Russian magazine poster by the Stenberg brothers.

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