Nowadays, it's very easy to separate music from design; Spotify plays from typography, colors, textures, photography. This tragic dichotomy, sentenced by the age of streaming music, has completely robbed us of the beautiful relationship that design and music have had for over 70 years. That's why, at Sugoi, we want to use part of this blog to share albums or musical projects that masterfully use this brotherhood between design and music to create a complete concept for their proposed work. That's why today we will talk about an album by a band with a rather tarnished reputation today: U2's Zooropa.
Over the years, U2 has deservedly earned quite a bad reputation. From the forced attempts at heroism by their egocentric frontman Bono; to the forced download of their infamous album Songs of Innocence. However, U2 has not spent their more than 40 years of musical career without giving the world at least a couple of good contributions. There's no need to mention "One" among these contributions, because today we want to remember Zooropa; not for the enormous collaboration with Johnny Cash for "Wanderer" (great song), but for the design of this album.
-José