Rolling Through the Bay is a unique piece of art, the kind of work we could see in a movie or a comic book. Scott Weaver, an american artist, spent 35 years of his live to make it with toothpicks. The sculpture features "tours" allowing ping-pong balls to roll through the piece of art.The sculpture symbolises the city of San Francisco by containing the main monuments and spots of the city, placed along the tours. A really creative and original work, which seduces a very wide public, thanks to the imaginary feeling it evokes. The details and concepts are important too for the artist, who used only one brand of glue, and foreign toothpicks to make the trees of the city.

In the days of digital, of mp3, of ITunes and downloading, the relationship between music and graphic design is getting less and less visible. It still exists, of course, and I presume it finds its future into video or interactivity. But if we have to compare to the visual richness of 50's, 60's, 70's and even the mid 90's, the musical graphic design of today is less rich and creative.
This eveolution not depends only on internet, because the raising of CD, with its more little display surface than vinyl discs, has restrained the graphic design expression surface. More over, some discs contained real edition works with posters, leaflets, allowing the designers and bands to really developp rich and detailed visual universes.
Today's young designers (like me), don't know for the most this interesting past of music design. However, it has create varied and experimental design, through the different music styles. It's in this objective that I introduced in an old article the Storm Thorgerson's work. Today I write this post about another great music designer, Reid Miles, who marked another music style, jazz music.