Photography
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 didn’t get into The Bronx until i heard their second album, The Bronx – II, which is bloody fantastic but with a less impressive cover. I always wanted to like them based on this cover, which reminds me of the horror movie posters of the late 70′s early 80′s. I’d even buy this on [...]
