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SEYMOUR H. ROWE, 85, of
West Bloomfield, died Aug.
19, 2011.
He was a workmen's com-
pensation attorney.
Mr. Rowe is survived by
his wife of 62 years, Beatrice
Rowe; daughters and sons-
Rowe
in-law, Dr. Marla Rowe
Gorosh and Neil Gorosh of West Bloomfield,
Dr. Debra Rowe and Dennis Bartleman of
Farmington Hills; son and daughter-in-law,
Steven and Lynn Rowe of Washington; grand-
children, Dr. Loren Gorosh, Alex Gorosh,
Amanda Clevey, Lilah Clevey, Ethan Rowe,
Adam Rose and Emma Rowe; sister-in-law,
Marcia Kahn; nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was the loving brother of the late Arnold
Sukrow and the late May Berkley; the dear
brother-in-law of the late David Kahn.
Contributions may be made to Orchards
Children's Services, 30215 Southfield Road,
Southfield, MI 48076, www.orchards.org .;
Focus Hope, 1355 Oakman Blvd., Detroit, MI
48238, www.focushope.edu ; Kadima, 15999
Road, Southfield, MI 48076,
www.kadimacenter.org ; or Tamarack Camps,
6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 380, Bloomfield
Hills, MI 48301, www.tamarackcamps.com .
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
Album Art Inventor
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lex Steinweiss, who created the
modern cardboard packaging
for record albums, brought
original artwork to album covers in
1939 and designed distinctive jackets for
hundreds of records, died July 17, 2011,
at 94.
Steinweiss was described as having
been "one of those people who are not
hugely famous but who have changed
the look of everyday things!'
Record covers either were blank
or used unoriginal artwork when
Steinweiss went to work for Columbia
Records in 1939.
"The way records were sold was
ridiculous',' Steinweiss said in 1990."The
covers were brown, tan or green paper.
They were not attractive and lacked
sales appeal."
One of his earliest covers, for a Bruno
Walter recording of Beethoven's Eroica
symphony, increased sales ninefold
when the album cover was illustrated,
confirming his instinct and
spawning a new genre of graphic
and marketing illustration.
"When you look at your
music collection today on your
iPod, you are looking at Alex
Steinweiss` Erolca cover for Bruno Walter
Steinweiss' big idea:' said record
illustrator Paula Scher.
became a freelance artist.
Steven Heller of the School
Steinweiss developed the LP record
of Visual Arts said Steinweiss' earlier
jacket for Columbia and owned the orig-
period was influenced by Art Moderne
inal patent for the manufacturing pro-
and Art Deco.
cess, but waived all his rights because of
"He tended to make everything sur-
his contract with the record company.
rear,' Heller said. "He tended to reduce
Steinweiss left the music business
what we would think of as common
in the early 1970s, but his work has
everyday icons into symbols."
continued to be revered and influential.
Steinweiss, a Brooklyn native whose
He received a gold medal in 2004 from
father was a women's shoe designer
ALGA, the professional association for
from Warsaw and his mother a seam-
design, which said his "genre-defining
stress from Latvia, attended the Parsons
School of Design on a scholarship before work in the visual expression of music
transformed both the design and the
going to work for the renowned poster
music industries."
designer Joseph Binder.
A 2008 exhibition at a California art
During World War II, Steinweiss pro-
gallery
and a 2009 book by art publisher
duced teaching materials and caution-
Taschen
received strong reviews. I I
ary posters for the U.S. Navy and later
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