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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 ...

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 ...

Photoshop tutorial showing how to design and create a vintage, jazz record album cover made famous by record companies such as Blue Note, Impulse, Prestige and Capitol Records.

After you've dumped blood, sweat, and tears into recording and mixing an album, there still remains the final step of creating album artwork. While this element of the process may not be one artists ...

Records are similar to books in one odd way: people judge them by their covers. It isn’t fair, but it’s the reality every indie artist deals with when releasing new music. And with streaming platforms ...

Before Virgil Abloh launched Off-White and became creative director of Louis Vuitton men’s, he worked on some of the most iconic album covers of the last decade. In 2011, West hired Abloh to become ...