The history of album art || Matthew Ström, designer-leader
An enjoyable guided tour of album artwork starting at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Link tags: albums
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Cold Album Drumming - full-album drum covers by Brad Frost
This is a great new musical project from Brad:
Brad Frost plays drums to the albums he knows intimately, but has never drummed to before. Cover to cover. No warm-up. No prep. Totally cold. What could possibly go wrong?
I really enjoyed watching all of The Crane Wife and In Rainbows.
Why The Longplay Face | Collection
I giggled at quite of few of these mashups.
Nick Cave Winning Competition Entries - a set on Flickr
Local music shop Resident Records ran a competition to win 20 pairs of tickets to an exclusive warm-up gig by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. To be in with a chance, you had to recreate an album cover. These are the winning entries.
You’ll spot Jessica’s creation in amongst them. We’re off to see Nick Cave tonight!
Bargain Bin Blasphemy
I think there might be some subliminal messages hidden in these album covers.
80s ALBUM ART RECREATED IN CSS ALONE | Monkeon | Web Design Leeds
A neat little experiment in replicating classic 80s albums using CSS.
Sleevage » Album Cover Blog. Music, Art, Design.
I could spend ages browsing through the archives of this site dedicated to analysing album sleeve artwork. In fact, I just did.
CoverFlow
A nifty app for OS X that allows you to browse your iTunes music by album cover.