A good album cover adheres to basic design principles. A great album cover has a layer of cultural commentary. And a ...

Braúlio Amado, creator of a Fall River mural, is nominated for a 2026 Grammy and designed the cover of Harry Styles' new album.

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 ...

Just recently our design editor wrote about how the alternate album cover art trend was going too far. From Sabrina Carpenter to Charli XCX, it's like artists can't choose any more. The cynical among ...

From the arrival of the Beatles in the 1960s through the early 1990s, the album cover established itself as a serious art form. Then came CDs, and the artwork and its impact were diminished. These ...

Featuring a casually dressed Mr Styles out in the dark wilderness, the album has a certain undone aesthetic that's a stark ...

Over-the-top psychedelia with elements that don’t connect; looking at it is like entering a chaotic kaleidoscope. A simple ...

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 ...

Utopia’s Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) grossed an estimated $10k from one engagement at NYC’s Film Forum, where it was the top-ranking pic. Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Anton ...

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 ...

This category isn’t exactly new. During the first Grammys in 1959, Frank Sinatra’s “Only the Lonely” received the award for album cover. It was presented every year until 1973, when the Siegel-Schwall ...