“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the very outset of their colossal and very cool new book, Rock Covers (TASCHEN), authors Robbie Busch and Jonathan Kirby acknowledge that there might well be “better or differently focused ...

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 ...

Miles Davis on the cover of his vinyl album Tutu in 1986 A new exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London celebrates the art of the album cover, and includes records by music legends such ...