Ian McCausland (31 March 1944 – 9 August 2022) was an Australian artist best known for his music posters.

Career

Ian McCausland began his visual arts career in 1968 after winning a competition in

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, an Australian music magazine. After Go-Set closed in 1974, Philip Frazer took several of their creative team to a new political publication called ''

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'', including McCausland as Art Director. Following the closure of ''The Digger'', McCausland worked for Planet, a weekly music newspaper which was started by

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and Ray Evans. The newspaper ran for two years until 1972, but its founders formed

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and McCausland joined them as the label's Art Director and designed their logo. His first work was ''The Great Australian Rock Festival, Sunbury 1973'', a triple LP recording of the 1973

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. He went on to design album covers for

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, Daddy Cool,

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, and the tour poster for

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1973 Australian tour. Although McCausland designed artwork for The Rolling Stones' album ''Goat's Head Soup'' the artwork was lost in the mail. A commission for their next album was rejected, with the band instead going with

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. McCausland also created the title design for the 1986 Australian film ''

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.'' McCausland died in August 2022. His work was previously featured in Ed Nimmervoll’s book ''Under the Covers'',and has been featured in exhibitions of music posters.

References

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