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Vartan

real name Vartan Kurjian

Vartan is credited on 963 releases across 1,788 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1976–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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963

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1,788

Albums

6

Decades active

5,251

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Grammy-award winning art director and designer, most notably for MCA Records and Universal Music Group (since 1995, after MCA was acquired and renamed by Seagram). He joined the MCA art department in 1979, before that he was a graphic artist in Japan. He was promoted to senior art director in 1991, and to VP of creative packaging in 1994.

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963 releases · 1,788 albums · active 1976–2026

  • Other credits · 990

Studios: The Village Recorder · Ter Mar Studios · ABC Recording Studios · Cherokee Studios

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