Carin Goldberg, a celebrated graphic designer who brought an inventive sensibility to book and album covers, died on Jan. 19 at her home in Stanfordville, NY, in Dutchess County. She was 69.

Ms. Goldberg was trained as a painter, but was a scholar of designs and typefaces, which she reimagined in elegant and witty combinations on the covers of thousands of albums and books.

She designed for CBS television, also Atlantic Records before starting her own business. She also taught design at the School of Visual Arts in New York for nearly four decades.