Ernie Cefalu

Ernie Cefalu
Ernie Cefalu, Creative Director
Born15 April 1945
WebsiteOriginal Album Cover Art

Ernie Cefalu (born 1945) is a contemporary artist and Senior Creative Director, currently working out of Los Angeles, CA. He is known for designing art for music albums.[1]

Cefalu attended the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) and graduated in 1969 with honors. Soon after, Cefalu started his career on Madison Avenue at Carolini Advertising, where his first assignment was to create the campaign and graphics for the International Paper Company's 1970 national sales meeting. His solution took the form of an elaborate, award-winning off-Broadway musical production, Dolls Alive. In the early part of 1970 Cefalu became an Art Director at Norman Levit Advertising where he created the Jesus Christ Superstar album and Angels[2] in an agency shootout with the Decca Records account as the prize.

  1. ^ "Artist - Ernie Cefalu". Regime Contemporary @ The Mayfair Hotel LA. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  2. ^ "The Golden Age of Custom Packaging: Jesus Christ Superstar". Retrieved February 9, 2015.