“There was no MTV, there was no VHI, there was no Spotify,” says Aubrey Powell. Instead, there was album art. In the 1970s, designers were treated as rock stars–album cover designers, that is. “You ...

The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...

Learn how to create a beautiful fractal glass effect in Adobe Photoshop that is perfect for album cover designs by using textures layers and blending techniques to achieve a modern artistic visual sty ...

PROVIDENCE — Salvador Dali did it. So did Pop artist Andy Warhol, fashion photographer Richard Avedon and underground comics legend Robert Crumb. What do these famous — but otherwise disparate — ...

Utopia’s Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) grossed an estimated $10k from one engagement at NYC’s Film Forum, where it was the top-ranking pic. Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Anton ...

In K-pop, eye-catching album designs are important for global success. Studio XXX Director Lee Ji-yoon is one of the most influential graphic designers in the field. Designing eight albums and music ...

This is my Album design for Ed Sheeran. I chose Ed as his music was particularly inspiring to me and there were so many different album cover ideas I could picture in my head to fit with his unique ...

Paste editors, staffers, writers and interns voted on the best album covers of 2016 after reviewing a field of over 350 designs. Album design trends in 2016 included horizons both terrestrial and ...

izna will be changing one of the versions of their debut mini album due to controversy over its design. Later that evening, izna’s agency WAKEONE announced that they were aware of the issue and had ...