Visual Style
It’s Underworld’s fifth studio album (to be released Oct 3 2007) and it looks like Tomato have gone back to a familiar style. In fact it looks like they just combined their first two album cover styles together. I know ripped at the 100 Days Off album but I did like it. That like all [...]
At first glance the cover looks like an image from National Geographic or a still from an Animal Planet documentary. On closer inspection you see that the animals are in-fact taxidermy, most likely shot in a public museum. The cover and inside imagery are the work of New York photographer Seth Smoot. Most of the [...]
This album combines two different Andy Warhol (The Factory) designed covers for two different music artists, The Rolling Stone’s Sticky Fingers and The Velvet Undergrounds self titled album. Both classic covers in their own right. So for a band with the name like Dandy Warhols it just seems fitting. This cover was painted by Ron [...]
I was really surprised when I first saw the cover design (by Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant fame). It was not what I had expected and I couldn’t decide if I loved it or hated it. It instantly reminded me of the Geoff Mcfetridge designed cover for Billy Corgan’s post Pumpkins band Zwan. Yet it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
While Underworlds previous albums displayed Tomato’s trademark style for typography this one sticks in my memory for just being simple and cute. You can hardly say any of Tomato’s work is cute except for this. I can thank my British Typography teacher for introducing me to Tomato’s work. The photo is by Dirk Van Dooren [...]
I have no idea who Justice are but this new cover rocks my gonads, and from the reviews I’ve read online the album rocks too (in a dance kinda way). This is actually their first album. And as everyone know the dreaded second album is always the hardest to make and not just for the [...]
The Hive’s previous covers were all very forgettable, bland affairs. In fact they are so bad I’ll post the below. While not actually deviating that much from their previous covers, Tyrannosaurus Hives look timeless. While the previous endeavours look terribly dated. This cover however makes you stand up and take notice. It doesn’t say anything [...]
How could we mention Blur’s The Best Of without showing Queens Hot Space? You could just picture this in 1982 on vinyl with it’s metallic inks and fluoro colors. It would have popped right off the walls. Zapping you eyeballs to go buy it. It’s a wonder you can’t get red Freddy Mercury shirts like [...]
