Designer Nikolay Saveliev has a lot more than a wicked sounding name going for him. He’s created a series of fake academic papers on the state of the pop music industry and disguised them as album covers. Each cover bears a title that would be more at home in an academic journal than a record store, but that’s where you’ll find them. In a move reminiscent of Banksy and Danger Mouse’s assault on the music of Paris Hilton, the designs have been covertly inserted into real record shops in the Rhode Island area.
This one is an obvious nod to Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, but the pleasure we take in his minimalistic jab at the music industry is anything but unknown.