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Alan Chan 陳幼堅
Album cover, Anita Mui: Leap the Stage 梅艷芳《飛躍舞台》唱片封套
1984
Alan Chan’s 1984 cover design for Hong Kong singer Anita Mui’s sophomore album depicts the Cantopop icon as a fantastic diva in outer space, using bright colours and bold patterns. The jacket features two close-ups of Mui looking ahead with an unflinching gaze. Inside are images of Mui posing against a candy-coloured background in an androgynous outfit, reflecting the artist’s gender-fluid stage persona and avant-garde style at the height of her fame in the 1980s. The exaggerated geometric forms and eye-catching patterns, such as black-and-white chequered stripes, reference the work of preeminent Japanese illustrator Yamaguchi Harumi, whose airbrush depictions of female figures made waves in the advertising scene in 1970s Japan. Working closely with Hong Kong illustrator Wong Kin Ho of Illustration Workshop, Chan based this cover design on his sketches and studio shots of the singer, and it was the first and only time he ever used airbrush on an album cover.
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