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- There’s No Feeling for the Cub Scouts’ Album Art
I looked on the iTunes Store today, and noticed a couple of new album covers with two distinct, poler opposite approaches to their album art. Firstly, I saw the sleeve for I want you to know that there is always hope by I Was A Cub Scout (below), and remembered thinking how unimaginative and boring it [...]
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:21:15 +0000 - Undiscovered Album Art for “It Hurts” CD
This is the latest album art I have done for a band named Undiscovered, an Idie/Rock band from Northern England. The image below shows the four pages of the CD Booklet: The music for this album is based around love and hurt. They approached me with a basic idea of what they wanted—with the ‘upside-down’ heart [...]
Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:41:45 +0000 - R.E.M: Supernatural Superserious Sleevealicious?
R.E.M’s new single, Supernatural Superserious, is taken from their 14th studio album, Accelerate—which incidentally has great album art. However, the sleeve for the first single to be plucked from the album is rather uninspiring (see below). Firstly, I don’t know what it actually is - apart from the typography, obviously. Secondly, with the Accelerate being so [...]
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:05:13 +0000 - Hot Chip’s Music may be Made In The Dark—But was the album artwork?
I’m used to hearing a new Hot Chip track—and then at some point discovering the album artwork which represents it. These CD covers, such as Hot Chip’s The Warning, Colours and Over and Over are both bright and colorful. These covers are what I’m used to seeing—and what I imagine their work would look like [...]
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:54:57 +0000 - Why Album Artwork no longer has Backbone!
I can remember the last couple of albums that I designed, where one place where accuracy is paramount is placing text and logos in the CD spine. You literally have less than 1cm to squeeze all the elements into this thin strip of CD ‘real estate’—the dreaded spine of the album’s artwork. As any good designer [...]
Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:24:59 +0000 - Adele—Like 19 Album Covers I’ve seen this week
This is going to be one of my shorter posts—well, more of a rant really. Every time I look on the front page of iTunes lately, I see a photo-shot of Adele, and now, her new album artwork for 19. I’m not a fan of her music, but I reckon the Home Town single is quite [...]
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:56:45 +0000 - CD Sleeves to be replaced by iTunes Album Artwork?
As a graphic designer for CD Sleeves, I’m very interested in the latest development in this apparently new ‘iTunes naming convention’ - Album Artwork. Obviously, as time progresses, and now in 2008, 80% of all albums are downloaded through online retailers, so are no longer physical ‘CDs’. Back in the day, a collection of music was [...]
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:20:14 +0000 - The Future of iTunes: Album Artwork Banned by Steve Jobs!
I few months ago, I wrote a post about how Brit-band Hard-Fi were opposed to Album Artwork on their new release. If this wasn’t enough, I recently heard that at least one band is now doing a similar thing (I can’t seem to find out how, if you have any information, please leave a comment). [...]
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:11:17 +0000 - Do you like rock music?..The Power of Rust
I must admit, I’ve heard very little of British Sea Power in general. A couple of weeks ago, I heard a track from the Brit-bands’ new album Do You Like Rock Musicon the Zane Lowe BBC Radio show. I thought it was quite good, but let’s not stray…this post is about the album artwork rather [...]
Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:24:26 +0000 - In Rainbows, In trend, In typography…
Anyone who’s either an avid fan of Radiohead or just an occasional listener will not be at all shocked by their latest album artwork for In Rainbows. Im not quite sure what the background image is, nor what it’s of (although it does look like a child in the womb). The album cover has got the [...]
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