Cover Art By: New Music Graphics

by Adrian Shaughnessy

The album cover is a subject of perennial interest among graphic designers. Sleeve design remains a popular subject for college projects, and many young working designers aspire to design for the music industry. Revealing state-of-the-art contemporary music graphics, Cover Art is packed with more than 400 examples of sleeve art. As well as CD and album covers, the insides of CD booklets and the backs of vinyl sleeves are shown.

The book opens with an in-depth essay reviewing the current scene, then focuses on the work of 30 international designers/labels who are the most influential in the field, making this a must-have for designers and students, as well as music industry professionals and fans.

Genres: Music, Art Design

320 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2008

Reviews

[Tom G]

the interviews are boring and the covers are mostly just pretentious, self-consciously designy European minimalism

[K]

this is very well-designed and all and the art is generally really cool but could seriously use some variance, could be way bigger and more interesting, getting new fresh opinions would be good. more interview stuff, less pictures of art that looks almost exactly the same as the last three pages. probably the best of its kind I've seen though