Album cover designer Vaughan Oliver, who developed a signature abstract style as the 4AD label’s in-house man on top of doing classic work for bands like the Pixies, has died at age 62. No cause of ...

Mihailo Andic: That was actually right before the Lil Boat mixtape came out. This is one of my favorite stories. It was just one day before Valentine's Day and one of my brother's friends came over to ...

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 ...

Good album covers might be more important now than they’ve ever been. Sure, the world is trending away from actual, physical copies of albums. But the unique, universal pleasure that comes with ...

“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 is. “You ...

The famous cover design of the Beatles' 1969 album 'Abbey Road,' by John Kosh, with the iconic photo taken by Iain Macmillan. “This was my first album cover,” Kosh says, “not really knowing what I was ...

From Cream to the Lightning Seeds, Leith's Rob Petrie honed his craft on album covers. He explains how it shaped his design philosophy, and why that approach is more relevant than ever. Before the ...

Album cover designer Vaughan Oliver, who developed a signature abstract style as the 4AD label’s in-house man on top of doing classic work for bands like the Pixies, has died at age 62. No cause of ...

Gary Burden, who beginning in the late 1960s designed memorable album covers for Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, the Doors and numerous other stars of rock and folk-rock, died March 7 in Los Angeles. He ...