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We really love a spectacularly ridiculous hip hop album cover. You know, one that deploys all the common cliches with copious jewelry, fancy cars, naked women, suits, cigars, a lurking posse, toned and oiled muscles, maybe a skyline, the works. It’s hip-hop, it’s all about showing off and having fun doing it. All of those [...]

In the kind of advertising stunt that will instantly win over music nerds everywhere, Beck’s (the beer, not the nerdy musician) commissioned 10 graphic artists to come up with new cover art for 10 albums culled from Pitchfork’s Best Albums of the Decade lists from the last 4 decades. After those images were unveiled, the [...]

We’re always pleased when some graphic designer takes it upon themselves to spruce up the look of an oldie but goodie music album, videogame or film. Today’s re-looking project comes courtesy of designer Huw Gwilliam (aka Littlepixel), whose re-imagined 39 Classic Album Covers as Vintage Penguin Books. Our favorite would have to be this version [...]

As several past lists have proven, making a decent album cover is about as challenging as making a good album. Even worse, if you make a really good album cover you can make people forget (for a moment) how crappy the music behind it is. Every so often, though, a truly spectacular album and an [...]

It’s a sad but nearly universal truth that video game cover art tends to be, well, not great. Still, with more and more designers padding out their portfolios by revising classic (and classically mediocre) pop culture artifacts, it’s no wonder that video games are the latest iteration of the cycle
After film-based illustrations and Modernist album [...]

On Friday we pointed you to some graphic artists’ revisions of classic movie posters into truly outstanding art, and over the weekend we discovered a design firm had done something similar to some of our favorite album covers. Needless to say, Illumination Ink’s Modernist Editions will make you want to buy those seminal albums all [...]

Our good friends at Urlesque published an ambitiously authoritative list yesterday, claiming to have rounded up the strangest album covers of all time. We were understandably skeptical at first, as sweeping claims are inevitably prey to vast cultural blind spots, but as we read we became humbled at just how strange The 20 Weirdest Album [...]

With some of these covers, the worst is arguably the best, with others, the worst is disturbing. It seems that any album cover with Prince’s half or mostly naked body on it is doomed for failure.
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London-based framing experts and album cover art gallery Art Vinyl holds an annual competition to determine the best cover art of the year. In 2008 competition was fierce as recording and visual artists collaborated ever more closely on album art and high-concept visual design. With rising stakes in mind, here are Art Vinyl’s Top 10 [...]