One of the iconic late 1960s album covers is the 1967 release by ‘Love’ called ‘Forever Changes’. Not only is it a fantastic album (which comes highly recommended by VoEA) but also the cover art is particularly memorable and one of the early examples of psychedelic art work on album covers. This cover was created [&hellip
Take a trip back through the many album cover history of Prince, in honor of what would have been his 60th birthday.
In this quick and simple tutorial, you’ll learn how to create album cover art for an epic rock album. Using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, we’ll look at how to set up the album cover size for...
Herman Poole Blount, better known as Sun Ra, rightfully gets credit for inventing Afrofuturism, the ingenious blend of sci-fi, Egyptology, occultism, and indigenous African spirituality. Even more impressive, the bandleader and free jazz innovator made it to outer space before NASA. While in college at Alabama A&M University in the mid-30s, he traveled to Saturn. … Continue reading "Sun Ra’s Afrofuturistic Album Covers"
Album cover art is always a great source of inspiration because there’s such an eclectic mix of styles to feast your eyes on. There’s no rules that determine what an album cover should look like, it just needs to be attention grabbing, possibly relate to the genre of the music it represents, and present the […]
From indelible images to perfect portraits, the 100 greatest album covers are just as famous and cool as the music inside.
In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to design a retro album cover straight out of the 70’s! To create our album cover we will be using The Beardy typeface from Aiyari which is just one of several beautiful fonts that you will find in The Amazing Designer’s Creative Collection. Along with these […]
Released on CD and on label Epic (EPC 450090 2). Wham! — Fantastic. Genre: Pop. Style: Synth-pop, Pop Rap
See also: This Day in TechJune 21, 1948: Columbia’s Microgroove LP Makes Albums Sound Good Columbia Records introduced the first successful microgroove long-playing phonographs way back in June 1948. But it took decades before album cover artwork came into its own. To celebrate the LP’s birthday, Wired.com’s staff compiled the following list of stellar albums […]
A new book entitled Art Record Covers features 500 record covers from the 1950s through to today. The designs include Andy Warhol's artwork for The Velvet Underground & Nico.
The day we figure out how to print these at the size of vinyl records is the day we level up as a species.
The beginning During the 1950s and 1960s modern jazz became a widely recognized part of American culture. As a musical form, it was radically changed in the 1940s by the bebop experiments of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and other musicians who were playing at clubs in New York. By the 1950s, their music began to reach a wider audience through recordings, which introduced many other musicians to the new style. Columbia was the first record label to introduce album covers,
The records that made the decade, starring Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Bon Iver, Solange, Lana Del Rey, and many more
Here are 27 more classic rock and heavy metal albums featuring great cover art, including Van Halen, "1984," T. Rex, "Electric Warrior," and Megadeth, "Countdown to Extinction."
A look at all the studio recorded Prince Album Covers in Chronological Order. This does not include compilations or live recordings.
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Los Angeles artist Gary Cannone supplants images of iconic art pieces into classic album covers to create “mock album covers,” as he calls them.
WARNING – Slight Nudity. I don’t quite know when these were popular – early 60’s most likely. What I do know is that the designs of these were absolutely great. Great use of…
Throughout time there have been some quite simply, mind-bogglingly bad covers of albums. We've got the worst for you to enjoy.
