Jazz cover design, is it plagiarism?

According to Wikipedia, the Jazz album artwork was suggested by Roger, who previously saw a similar design painted on the Berlin Wall. Of course I don't know for certain that this is true but if it is, it might be possible that the designer of the above image saw the same design that Roger did. It seems fairly unlikely to me, but not impossible, and would be based on the assumption that the painting was made on the Berlin Wall first, and that it was a purely original design by whomever painted it.

The above image and the one on the cover of Jazz do look similar enough that it's hard for me to conclude that it's a coincidence. It would be nice if someone was willing and able to look into it.

Ted

I think that is true that, Roger saw in Berlin wall a graffiti design with concentric cycles and the word jazz. Then suggested to the band - after the design cover team created the well known cover. So there is a possibility the cream team knew about the Japanese design and took license .

The concentric cycles always remind me the vinyl grooves.

I think the Jazz 'circles' looked great on Roger's kick drums. This is the smaller kit used for Dreamer's Ball/'39.

I don't know what Roger saw in Berlin.
Obviously, concentric circles can be made in many different ways. But in this case, the cover of Jazz is exactly the same as the Kamekura poster from 1973.
The question is whether it was used under license or was it plagiarized.
To be honest, I have doubts that this original design was licensed by the author, maybe I'm wrong. For one thing, in graphic design, when you do a job, it's for a specific assignment for a client. It is not a free use image.
Lastly, I haven't gotten any information about other work from the Cream studio, does anyone have any information?

Yeah, I feel like this kind of design work is more likely than other types to be voluntarily repurposed by the artist, since it was for an industry event that ran for a few days 6 years prior, and is not tied to long-term use or brand identity. Kamekura was a prominent designer that had designed the Tokyo Olympics '64 logo among other things, so I doubt Cream would try to pull a fast one.

He also designed the logo for Nikon, and did other work, including helping with the design of the Nikon F camera itself. Here's an ad he did for Nikon in 1971, perhaps showing the origin of the concentric ring design that he used later in 1973 for the poster we've been discussing:



I think the concentric squares represent the iconic pyramid-shaped viewfinder, which Kamekura himself helped to design in 1959 for a different Nikon camera. The concentric circles look like they represent the lens. You can maybe see what I mean here with the viewfinder and lens:



So, when we look at the Jazz album cover, are we looking at a design originally inspired by a Nikon camera lens?

While we’re on this topic, I’d also like to point this cover out, which will take no stretch of the imagination what album cover this will make spring to kind. This is a Yellow Magic Orchestra single from 1981:

www.discogs.com/release/410264-Yellow-Magic-Orchestra-Tighten-Up

Also, wasn’t “Hot Space” also accused of lifting from a Procol Harum album cover too?

This one? www.discogs.com/master/19236-Iron-Maiden-Can-I-Play-With-Madness
I can't really see the similarity to be honest :/

Sorry I didn't remember correctly, I meant Clairvoyant
www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Clairvoyant_(song)

Did we not establish that the Miracle cover was based on this Japanese design?

Unsure where it came from. It was deathtoming who posted it in this thread:


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