50 Examples of Awesome Album Artwork - Part 1ListThumbs
50 Examples of Awesome Album Artwork - Part 1
August 03, 2009
Following my articles on posters, I received a suggestion from @MateToth90 to try a post with indie CD covers.
I thought it was a really good idea so I went on the lookout for some cool album artwork to share with you guys today. I found so many that I decided to break it up into two articles to avoid major computer crashing around the world. Stay tuned for part two ;)
Oh, and there's probably more really good ones out there that I missed out on, so send me cool ones you found through twitter or facebook and I'll include them in the next one!
rulico
Matt Govaere
Razvan Garofeanu
Jeremy Dowd
Jonathan Dickson
Jason Drakeford
KIDPLASTIK
David Bez
Luke Wright
Ricky Trickartt
Lauren Burke
Three Bears Design
Gokhan Eryaman
Jason Alejandro
Nate James
Jónas Valtýsson
Oliver Ward
Thiago Santana
teagan white
Miguel Vega
Haik Avanian
About the author
I am Amanda Macedo - a student, photography enthusiast, and lover of life. I eat, sleep and breathe art, and I hope to share with you some of my thoughts and findings here at Abduzeedo as I further my discovery of graphic design. You can also find me on Twitter: @amlight
14 Comments
Nice article. Awesome works.
uuu nice
I'm a big fan of Imogen Heap (I have some wallpapers, like this ''thumbnail'' http://www.shaknovsk.com/images/photo/imogen.jpg) and I loved the Razvan's interpretation. She'll launch her third album this month and the cover of Ellipse is very interesting too.
I guess that this artwork from Razvan's is an experimental work, because I can't find any Imogen Heap album with this...
Great artworks!
(and sorry for my broken english, hihi)
Some really nice albums there, but you forgot Lemon Jelly's :) hehe
Great post Amanda! I love how your post's tie into music a lot. There is really an insane amount of great artwork out there on CD's, Fliers, T-Shirts etc... Love this!
where's jamiroquai?!
Very nice collection, great finds
WoW !
Those are some really awesome album covers...
This has been bookmarked!
haha i used to play shows with calerway thats weird.
Great post. I love album artwork. I still buy all my music on CDs, I can't get into digital because there's no album artwork to look at (up close) and no liner notes.
All examples of great cd covers.
i love the Gokhan Eryaman one.
Nowadays it is hard to make something originally handmade and still keep a design feel about it.
Cool stuff
Jamiroquai has awesome artworks too. But I need to comment about Cranberries.
Search for the cover of these albums:
- Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1992)
- No Need to Argue (1994)
- To The Faithful Departed (1996)
"Everybody else..." was the first album from them, with the famous Linger and Dreams, and has a black cover. When they launched No Need To Argue, they used a part of the itens from the first cover, but with a white style (Zombie is, definetelly, a break up with the "calm/sad" songs). The songs are a kind of "opposition" to the first album, and they used the cover to show it.
The third are yellow with purple, complementary colors. The songs where different from the previous albums, but still a mix of them.
I think that this is interesting :) see other covers like "bury the hatchet" and "wake up and smell the coffee".
Kate Havnevik has a awesome artwork too in her album Melankton.
I loved that post. Thanks a lot, Amanda!
[and, again, sorry for my english =( ].
this is why i still buy cd's
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