Here are ten striking record sleeves that caught our eye this year, featuring a racist caricature, an albino snake and a ...

In the 1970s, designers were treated as rock stars–album cover designers, that is. “You were regarded almost like the fifth member of the band,” says Aubrey Powell, whose studio Hipgnosis was ...

PROVIDENCE — Salvador Dali did it. So did Pop artist Andy Warhol, fashion photographer Richard Avedon and underground comics legend Robert Crumb. What do these famous — but otherwise disparate — ...

Sometimes you don't have to know the songs on an album to recognize it because the cover art is so good. A contest on DesignCrowd asked designers to Photoshop their own versions of iconic album covers ...

Pop, derived from the word "popular," is a genre that's continually hard to define. Pop music shifts constantly, but over time, it has been known to include catchy melodies and hooks, repeated ...

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 vinyl ...

The death last week of Storm Thorgerson at the age of sixty-nine was both the end of an era and the reminder of the end of another era. Thorgerson was one of the premier rock-album designers of the ...

Google is preparing dramatically redesigned album covers for Google Photos. The design changes follow Google’s Material 3 Expressive design. Some key action buttons have moved. Google is preparing a ...

Under the Cover is a column analyzing album artwork. Ever since Kanye West unveiled the chaotic PowerPoint slide-looking artwork for The Life Of Pablo in 2016, a running joke has accompanied the ...

Paste editors, staffers, writers and interns voted on the best album covers of 2016 after reviewing a field of over 350 designs. Album design trends in 2016 included horizons both terrestrial and ...