“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 ...

Here we go again. Social media will not let Virgil Abloh catch a break, and this time it’s about Pop Smoke’s album cover. As we speak, some of the late rapper’s fans are assembling online to burn ...

Talk about versatility. Crawford took a more detailed approach to the cover art for Before Their Eyes‘ 2008 album, The Dawn Of My Death. It’s no easy task to make pastel colors look grungy as hell, ...

Sometimes you don't have to know the songs on an album to recognize it because the cover art is so good. A contest on DesignCrowd asked designers to Photoshop their own versions of iconic album covers ...

In the early days of vinyl records, album covers were nothing more than a safety feature, blank paper jackets meant to protect the fragile content inside. That is, until, designer Alex Steinweiss at ...

With the Grammys reviving a long-dormant category for album covers, visual artists and musicians talk about what it means to ...