Album Art
What better way to welcome new guitarist Mick Taylor and celebrate starting your own record company than coming up with one of the most memorably direct album sleeves of all time? Second only to John Pasche’s Lips and Tongue logo , Sticky Fingers’ giant nob in denim is as savvy a coporate ad as you [...]
Movie studios have been dancing under the sequel tree for as long as time can remember, networks caught on and now crank out sequels of shows that are still running but record labels haven’t done much in the way of sequels. That is unless you count Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell series. Note: This [...]
M/M have done well to “out weird” the previous Bjork covers with this design for Volta. The sculpture by Bernhard Willhelm, a famous fashion designer, is a mix between a Russian Doll and a melted bag of Chuppa Chups. Here’s a behind the scenes photo of the sculpture without Bjork inside. It looks like the [...]
Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible album artwork stood out to me as a harc back to the Americana/Bible Belt days, which is weird as the band is Canadian. If you’re lucky enough to get the deluxe edition you get the lenticular box set and mini flip books and poster. See below. The beauty of having an [...]
Matteo Pericoli’s art is the perfect compliment to the Beastie Boy’s tribute to NYC. We received the fold-out digi pack and the artwork had great impact even at that size. The original is 12×444 inches and at that size you’d feel like you were there. Well there but on drugs as everything is line art. [...]
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 [...]
The album’s cryptic cover art was designed by Tappin Gofton (aka Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton), who created the cover for The Chemical Brothers’, Push the Button. The blocks are the Baudot code-encoding (ITA2, a 5-bit alphanumeric encoding used by telegraphs) of the title of the album, X&Y. (Quoted from the Wiki page) The CD [...]
I love this cover for being both sexy and abstract at the same time. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Farrow design had commissioned extra photos from John Ross. Badabing! They feel a little Clockwork Orange to me for some reason. These would work great as posters. I also like this triptych below which [...]
Los Angeles-raised, Brooklyn-based Brent Rollins designed this cover for one of the freshest sounds of today, Baltimore act Spank Rock. Brent has been deeply involved producing iconic hip hop imagery over the years. From way back with Spike Lee’s Mo Better Blues and the Boyz N Da Hood logos to his recent involvement in the [...]
This is the first single for UK group Devil’s Gun. This was submitted by the talented people at You Are Beautiful. (love the name) Now normally I’d fake it and say I’ve known about these guys and try and pass off as a trendy person but sadly I’ve never heard of them. This is why [...]
