Epiclectic's Vintage Vinyl : un album. POLAR ALERT : TOP 100. Analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org. Hardformat - Reaching for the sublime in music design. Vintage Vanguard ジャズレコード館. Sleevage ? Music, Art, Design. 35 Beautiful Music Album Covers - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Album cover art is often considered to be one of the “extincted” fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their importance as less and less customers actually buy CDs and LPs in the stores.
That’s a pity because album covers can be extremely expressive and convey the message of the album in a number of creative ways. This post attempts to prove exactly that. Music and art go hand in hand. Below we present 35 excellent examples of beautiful, creative and impressive album covers that will certainly inspire you to head down to the local record shop and start browsing through records and labels. This post was updated. Album Covers The Mars Volta “Frances the Mute”1 Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask3 Michael Jackson: Dangerous by Mark Ryden5 Devil’s Gun – Raising The Beast6 Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist by Shepard Fairey8 Keane: Under The Iron Sea by Sanna Annukka10 Arcade Fire: Funeral Godspeed You!
The World?s Greatest LP Album Covers, 45?s too. Project Thirty-Three.