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 ...

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 ...

Simultaneously the sexiest and most tongue-in-cheek album cover for any of Queen’s albums is the art that appeared on 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 ...

We listen to music, but sometimes we look at it too. Album cover art is an essential part of the listening experience, although it is often overlooked. No longer! Here are some of The Crimson’s Arts ...

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.

Saturn is bringing an event focused on the art of album design to Birmingham next week.

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 ...

The album is the best invention of the past century, hands down — but the music isn’t the whole story. The album cover has been a cultural obsession as long as albums have. Ever since 12-inch vinyl ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...