It’s not often an album cover gets so much publicity but I guess Marilyn Manson is used to this. I remember reading about this cover everywhere when it was released in 1998. Now it was the album cover that was scaring the grannies not just the music. Wal Mart wouldn’t stock it and it was [...]
My favorite new band of 2007 so far! And some of the best cover art I’ve seen in a while. Illustrated by Craig Thompson, best known for his graphic novel ‘Blankets’. The cover has four sides and the die-cuts reveal the disc or tray artwork behind. Rotating the disc creates variations of the artwork. A [...]
We posted four black covers in a row so I thought it nice for a lighter change. What I liked about this simple execution was it’s periodic table feel. I guess New Order have influenced so man other bands they are part of the musical building blocks. (Deep I know) It’d actually be interesting to [...]
It’s interesting that what a band wears during their live gigs becomes a trademark. I guess Kiss worked this way too. This cover which features two skulls (Paul and Phil Hartnoll actual X-rays) wearing headlights in a Skull & Cross bones design feels like a metal cover and not the usual slick imagery we see [...]
I showed my lack of music knowledge (or is that age) when I posted Justice’s † album. Little did I know it was ‘inspired’ from another classic Hipgnosis cover, T.Rex’s Electric Warrior. Looking at this cover it doesn’t feel like its 36 years old. It feels as fresh today as it must have been back [...]
This cover for John Butler Trio’s latest album is a nice take on the Rorschach inkblot test. The act of making these is called ‘Klecksograph’y. There’s something for the next dinner party. It reminds me of the Gnarls Barkley “Crazy” film clip but with a lot more hidden imagery in the image. If you look [...]
What makes this cover for XTC’s Go 2 interesting is that it was from Hipgnosis, the same UK design group that brought us some of the most original and memorable covers for bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Yes and Black Sabbath. Hipgnosis’s trademark story like imagery is replaced by copy poking fun at [...]
When I think about this album cover I imagine that the three blokes sitting there are the sleaziest looking buggers around, but now, upon seeing it again up close, I realise that, though, they’d never have become Top Models they’re not so bad after all. They do, nonetheless, epitomise the hippie in all his many [...]
It’s not often you see a cover use stock photos so extensively yet still remain an original and interesting cover. Sagmeister is known for his unique approach to design and as this was the 12th album by Pat Methany the obviously needed some way of making it different and stand out. Every piece of text, [...]
While I can’t say I’m a fan of the music (or the band’s name, it’s one down from Maroon 5), I do like this series of covers for Vega4′s debut album and subsequent singles. One major aspect of Big Active’s work is that they rarely do a single execution. There is always a series of [...]
