Paul Cleveland was another Swinburne graduate who worked at WRC in the late sixties. He had a style which broke from the earlier Swinburne mould. Still decorative but with a spidery hand, he created intricate, detailed drawings. The cover at top left has secret, hidden tiny naked and embracing couples hidden among the foliage. This was an act of rebellion by Paul who been reprimanded by a customer for enlarging a picture of Edward Elgar to such a scale that the cover could only be deciphered if viewed from across a room. His intricate drawing for the 'Jacques Loussier Plays Bach' cover was meant to shock the customers, if only they knew where to look.

Associate Professor Paul Cleveland is Director of the Queensland College of Art today.

Four more cover designs by Max Robinson. Top left: shows Max dancing with the photographer Gerry Vandenburg's wife  in the grounds of the 'Beverley Hills' apartments in South Yarra. Bottom right: is a photograph by Gordon de Lisle of a rose thorn shot through a fly-wire door screen. Top right: Beethoven Mass and bottom left: a linocut of Shakespeare for Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream.

These covers were reproduced in the ACIAA Awards Annual for 1962 (Australian Commercial and Industrial Artists Association). Clockwise from top left: John Copeland, John, Lance Stirling, Alex Stitt, Guus Van Der Heyde, Malcolm Binding, Guus, Verdon Morcom and Guus again in the centre. They were the only album covers represented in the annual awards.

Tony Ward, another Swinburne graduate who joined the studio in 1965 also had a richly decorative style. Tony embraced 'Edwardian' Pop with a kind of Carnaby Street energy given to classical themes. He exhibited successfully at the time, with energetic lino-cuts and papier-maché figurines, and in later years was part of the iconic studio 'All Australian Graffiti' alongside Mimmo Cozzolino and Con Aslanis et al. Tony continues to design, illustrate, paint and exhibit — all combined with a lecturing position at Swinburne today.

Winston Thomas was another Swinburne graduate, a contemporary of both Keith McMenomy and Tony Ward. Taught by the influential and charismatic Brian Robinson Swinburne students of their day developed a love of decoration, ephemera, old type forms and Victoriana. 

Winston stayed at WRC for only a short while before he joined the studio at the ABC, the only other design studio in Melbourne at that time that allowed for artistic freedom and expected such creativity and contemporary styling.

Like so many others who worked at WRC Winston has had a long career in tertiary design education, several years lecturing at his alma mater—Swinburne.

Renowned newspaper cartoonist and social commentator Bruce Petty contributed a few spirited cover designs for WRC in the early years. His signature style can be seen even in this drawing for a children's record, created c. 1960.

John Copeland (top 4) and Guus Van Der Heyde (bottom 4) worked together at WRC in the early days. John had worked and studied in London, Guus had trained in Holland and was one of the first designers to graduate from his art school with a specialisation in photography. 

Both were great illustrators, and graphic stylists, producing a wide range of designs in a wide range of styles. John tended towards symbolic and abstracted graphic forms wheras Guus would take up his camera whenever he could combining his elegant photographic compositions with spare typography. 

Both had long careers in tertiary design education post WRC.