“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 ...

Which brings us back to London Calling's album cover. The design wasn't new -- pink and green lettering framing a black and white photo -- in fact, it dated to 1956, when Elvis Presley's debut ...

The album cover — once a crucial part of any band's identity — has been dying a slow death for decades. For the most part, music fans put up with the shrinkage of album art from expansive ...

The album is the best invention of the past century, hands down — but the music isn’t the whole story. The album cover has been a cultural obsession as long as albums have. Ever since 12-inch ...

A book charting what it proclaims as the world's top 100 album covers will make its entrance next week. With entries ranging from The Beastie Boys to Joni Mitchell and Mahler's Ninth Symphony, the ...

The CD era shrunk the size down, but still emphasized the importance of a visual hallmark, requiring designers to make a big statement in a smaller space. Now, the album “cover” is often just ...

This past week we lost one of the greatest album cover art designers of all time. Britain's Storm Thorgerson, who died last Thursday, was just 69 years old. He'd spent more than 40 years designing ...