In the mid-1990s a fresh, Do-It-Yourself approach to producing album art began to percolate through the post-punk, emo and hardcore music scenes in the US and Europe. The visual material that comprises DIY Album Art: Paper Bags & Office Supplies showcases a unique aesthetic and usage of materials borne out of financial necessity and creative imperatives. While a great number of the bands have not endured, their hand-made, screen-printed, glued, photocopied, drawn on, sewn together packaging paved the way for the potential of innovative, non-traditional music packaging. Arranged chronologically, these designs reveal a short-lived era marked by intense personal expressions that were traded and bartered, influencing how other like-minded bands decided to make their music available (mostly to one another). The obscurity of this material and its general coherence as an aesthetic ideology make for a rare revelatory book of work you have never seen before, although today much of it seems...

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