Matt Maitland: Leopard Tree Dream

Date
12 March 2012

I often long to pick the brains of my favorite artists, just to get a peek inside the mind that made the stuff I go all giddy over. And while I may never fully understand the imagery in Matt Maitland’s crazy-sexy-tacky collages, I do now know the inspiration behind all the 1980s babes and big cats that so often appear in them. Matt’s made a ton of album covers for peeps like Beck, Basement Jaxx and Goldfrapp and in 2011 he started Leopard Tree Dream, a tumblr-based show-and-tell of retro record covers from his private collection. This is no half-hearted side project mind you; the archive is big, well-curated, and full of insightful quips about the original artists and designers. As the man himself says, “Enjoy!”

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