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An outfit called Hypergallery has posters of Abandon artwork for sale. They are said to be limited edition (50 copies) prints “meticulously reconstructed from the original source material by artist Ioannis”. The band had just completed Abandon and were late getting the cover art together. I sat in their manager Bruce Payne’s office along with […]
Read more »When Abandon was released, the American record company at the time, CMC International, had some idea of radio promotion for the disc. A couple of singles were released and they also produced a bunch of interview clips. The interviews were made like short sound bites you could edit together with appropriate questions from your own […]
Read more »In the spring of 1997 Ioannis was introduced to Roger Glover and Bruce Payne and began working on Abandon. Ioannis recalls: There was a huge rush to get the art finished approved and off to the printers, It is one of my favorite images, however I regretted the fact that I did not have the […]
Read more »Graphic artist Ioannis has more than 165 record covers under his proverbial belt, including some that you might know very well. He kindly agreed to answer our questions. THS: Your work with Deep Purple included cover art for Abandon (1998) and Rapture of the Deep (2005), and graphic design for Bananas (2003). Anything else? Ioannis: […]
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Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing