20th Century
Modernism
Swiss Style
ECM Music
Founded by producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, ECM has issued over a thousand albums spanning many idioms, including standard-setting jazz recordings by Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, the Art Ensemble of Chicago and others:
Importantly, for the field of graphic design Ecm has also pursued a consistent visual language based upon an interpretation of Swiss Style in its album covers. Very clean typography, often coupled with very beautiful , minimalistic photographs... Unfortunately the ECM site shows only small thumbnails. However a google image search will give you nice results, 4 of which I have linked to here:
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