Where can I buy large album art?

November 7, 2005 8:08 AM

Where can I buy, or have made, a large print/poster of the album art to Mike Oldfield's Crises?

I'd like it to be significantly larger than the CD booklet, so scanning it and reprinting it larger is, I think, out of the question. I considered trying to find a vinyl copy and scanning the sleve, but: a) Vinyl is bigger than my scanner, and b) I'm guessing finding a good quality sleve to scan would be difficult.

posted by Mwongozi to shopping (5 comments total)

Can you scan it and scale it? If you can, you could have these folks print it up.
posted by cmonkey at 8:33 AM on November 7, 2005

Actually, scanning it at very high resolution and blowing it up will likely work better than you think.

You might try a copy shop like Kinko's or perhaps a local one. If they've got someone "managerial" on hand they may not want to let you do it because it's a commercial work you're replicating/blowing up. However, you can always just go to another copy shop, or come back when a less picky employee is working there.

An alternative, if you have a graphic design savvy friend who is good with Adobe Illustrator, would be to have him/her "trace" the image in Illustrator. It's mostly line-art, so it should be pretty doable for someone good. The only tricky part will be the moon, but someone good can probably replicate it reasonably well.
posted by twiggy at 8:37 AM on November 7, 2005

Walmart (evil!!) has a 500x500 version of the art, which is better than Amazon. (Also a lot darker, but I don't know which one is more true.)
posted by smackfu at 8:43 AM on November 7, 2005

IIRC the actual shade is pretty much right smack dab in between Wal-Mart's and Amazon's renditions.

That's an illustration, not a photograph, so it MIGHT be possible to use autotrace or some similar facility to convert it to a vector drawing with a little work. Then you'd be able to blow it up as big as you want.
posted by kindall at 10:28 AM on November 7, 2005

If your interest is legitimate, you could contact the artist yourself.
posted by dhartung at 11:12 PM on November 7, 2005