Designing for Laurie Anderson:
Yolanda Cuomo interview
Yolanda Cuomo is an art director and designer who has collaborated for over 20 twenty years with both visual and performing artists including Richard Avedon, Paul Simon, Twyla Tharp, Gilles Perress, Sylvia Plachy, and one of my personal favorites, artist-musician Laurie Anderson.
In fact, my Post-Punk Banquet article “Art historian destroys evidence” was directly inspired by a Laurie Anderson song that I remembered from over 20 years ago. Yolanda also has been inspired by Anderson, but up close and personal—in Laurie’s loft even, via collaborations for creating two album/CD covers and a poster for the Songs and Stories from Moby Dick series of performances.
What’s it like to work on graphics projects with Anderson, an influential artist-musician? What was the artistic process for the designs? Via a telephone interview, Yolanda Cuomo recalls her experiences. The following pages feature excerpts from our conversation:
Yolanda Cuomo: Designing for Laurie Anderson: 1 | Bright Red cover: 2 | The Ugly One with the Jewels cover: 3 | Moby Dick poster: 4
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