Album covers are crucial in defining a musician’s brand and visual identity. It is often the first thing fans see, giving them a glimpse of the tone and style of the music. AI image generators now ...

A good album cover adheres to basic design principles. A great album cover has a layer of cultural commentary. And a fantastic album cover understands both while maybe breaking some rules.

The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...

Joy Feuer insists that she has always seen the sound of music and the images behind it as inseparable. From the looks of the crowds pouring into the Art of Music Experience at the Orange County Fair ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Evelyn Mousigian. The platitude that chides those who judge books by their covers is ...

For a band with such an unmistakable style—eyeliner, red lipstick, black garb, tousled hair—the Cure, in frontman Robert Smith’s telling, has long resisted iconography. “I don’t want to be known for ...

In a groundbreaking moment for the music industry, Tyler, the Creator has won the inaugural Best Album Cover award at the 2026 Grammy Awards. His album Chromakopia not only showcases his musical ...

Tyler, the Creator's 'Chromakopia' won the first-ever awared for Best Album Cover at the 2026 Grammy Awards, with the award ...

A baby boy swims under cool, blue water, a one dollar bill dangling on a fish hook just in front him. If this image sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because you very well might have seen it before.

Remember how cool it was the first time you used Apple’s Cover Flow feature to flip through artwork for albums you bought on iTunes? More than a decade after Apple introduced that feature, Apple Music ...

Album artwork flipped from being an afterthought to a feature when classic rock bands started selling millions of records during their heyday. The large surface area of vinyl LP sleeves gave artists a ...