As vinyl sleeves grew into larger creative canvases, musicians in the 1970s increasingly turned to visionary photographers, ...
Some album covers are as iconic as the music that they presented. We could even argue that they delivered some of the most iconic pieces of popular art of the past few decades. But are they still ...
We count down the greatest album artworks of the 1980s, where bold visual ideas matched the groundbreaking musical statements ...
More than half a century after it quietly disappeared, one of the Grammy Awards' most visually driven honors is making a ...
The first time an album cover won a Grammy, the trophy went to Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely. Now, a whole new crop ...
The cover of The Who Sell Out by The Who is probably the oddest one of the bunch. This concept album was released in 1967 and features two of the band’s members in opposing photographs. Pete Townshend ...
During the 1990s, while serving as a resident artist at West Africa Magazine in London, I was approached by an individual from Italy seeking to contact renowned Nigerian Afro Pop artist, Ghariokwu ...
Nirvana’s Nevermind is one of the most instantly recognizable album covers in music history. Aside from getting some parents to agree to throwing their baby in a pool, the artwork seems fairly ...
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Award-winning singer and songwriter Taylor Swift doesn’t just release iconic hits; her artistic flair stretches to her album cover art too. Unsurprisingly, cover art plays a part in the marketing of ...
Where oh where to start - the guy's giant pointy elf shoes? The mysterious brown liquid seeping out from between the girl's legs and onto the floor? The Beep Beep poster with inexplicable ocean motif?