Posted by Ash on 27 Mar, 2008 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Art-based, Indie Rock, Photography It’s not just Michael Jackson releasing a deluxe (remixed) version of a classic album. Beck is getting in on the action too with the release of the Deluxe Edition of Odelay. Just a mere 12 years after is original release.
Posted by Ash on 30 Sep, 2007 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Art-based, Indie Rock This caught my eye while browsing on Amazon. The complex screen printed shapes spell out the band name in an abstract way, although this is only really evident in the posters.
Posted by Ash on 29 Aug, 2007 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Indie Rock, Photography, Typography One of the beauties of talking about the album artwork is you don’t need to have listened to the album or even know the band to make a comment. While it helps in some cases it doesn’t make too much difference here with The Enemy’s debut album. Big Active’s artwork looks great (‘yellow and black’ [...]
Posted by Ash on 18 Aug, 2007 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Photography, Pop 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 [...]
Posted by Ash on 2 Aug, 2007 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Alternative, Art-based Keane’s second studio album and another fantastic album cover and music series from Big Active. Illustrator Sanna Annukka did a great job with all the subsequent single releases and the DVD booklet. Check her website for more examples of art for Keane. Below are the five singles from the album. My fav is the skull [...]
Posted by Ash on 17 Jul, 2007 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Indie Rock, Photography This car crash of objects melded together is intriguing. I feel like I’m in a contemporary art installation. While it looks like an accident you can bet it was days of work to get them just right. And if you were to try and pull something off similar it wouldn’t have the same creative spark [...]
Posted by Ash on 17 Jul, 2007 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Electronica, Photography, Rock What I love about this cover is how the identity was carried across throughout all the other releases. They are dark yet appealing at the same time. Like a twisted kids fairy tale. All credit to Thomas Grunfeld who created the original creatures featured on the cover. They are from his series called Misfits which [...]
Posted by Mike on 8 Jun, 2007 | View Comments | Filed under 00s, Album Art, Concept, Packaging The packaging for Beck’s latest album The Information consists of a blank grid cover and a random set of stickers for each release designed by various artists. The idea is to mix and match as you choose to create your own custom cover.
