obituaries Obituaries from page 65 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 JTA A 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 WE'RE HERE TO CONTINUE A TRADITION OF SERVICE. Josh Tobias and Chad Techner are both the kind of young professionals we all want to see in our community. Josh and Chad are part of The Ira Kaufman Chapel's fourth generation of professionals who have chosen to stay in Metro Detroit's Jewish Community to live and work. Along with Herb Kaufman, David Techner and an experienced group of colleagues, they continue a tradition started in 1941 and stand ready to serve your family when needed. THE IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL Bringing "cogether Family.. Faith & Communitv 1832.5 k\ . Nine Mile Road Southileki, Nil 48()75 IraKaufman.com 66 4 August 25 : 2011 t")() • Obituaries 4 4