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Ask DN: Designers, what's your favorite album cover design?
over 8 years ago from Simeon K, Designer
Curious :-)
83 comments
Nav Dhillon, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
and never forget:
Alex Flores, over 8 years ago
solid
Ian Williams, over 8 years ago
I freakin' love the art direction of FKA Twigs' stuff.
Nathaniel Perales, over 8 years ago
Thumbs up to Jai Paul.... ugh best album of that year.
Weston Vierregger, over 8 years ago
I like you.
Erik Terwan, over 8 years ago
Jai Paul <3
anthony thomas, over 8 years ago
What's the name of the artist for the first album? Can you list the artist names for each album? I like discovering new music.
Gerald Llorence, over 8 years ago
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I Great album!
- The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
- FKA Twigs - LP1
- Washed Out - Life of Leisure
- Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
- Yeezus - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
- Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation
- Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
- MF Doom - Mm.. Food
- Jai Paul - Jai Paul
Simon O’Shea, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Here's a few off the top of my head. Basically everything that Björk and M/M Paris have collaborated on. Also other's that came to mind are Joy Division‘s Unknown Pleasures, Tycho’s Awake, Nine Inch Nails’ The Fragile, Mark Ronson’s Record Collection and Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew.
Jeffrey Kam, over 8 years ago
I knew someone would mention Tycho's Awake. I love that album
Mike M, over 8 years ago Anything from Jamie xx (cause they all look the same except for the colours)
Clark- Clark
Any of The Smiths' albums but especially their first one
New Order's Substance
Jake Zien, over 8 years ago
Ditto on Clark; almost included it myself.
Cory Gibbons, over 8 years ago
Jamie xx are my favourite, it's a great play on The XX cover.
Varun Vachhar, over 8 years ago
Yea I love those Jamie xx covers!
In fact I made a little site dedicated to them: http://winkervsbecks.github.io/jamieXX
Nic Trent, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
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alec s, over 8 years ago
Some of my favorite albums in here!
Mike M, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago ) I love the Jon Hopkins' cover (and it's one of my favourite album)
Great selection. Those FlyLo records were fantastic.
Taylor Poe, over 8 years ago
Caretaker! Love that record.
Phil Rau, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
I'm a big jazz guy, so here are a few of my favorites! I'm a sucker for big type and strong composition. And I'm a big fan of Reid Miles' work.
Curtis Estridge, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Some great ones in here already. I went through and grabbed just a few.
Darkside
Melodys Echo Chamber
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Great ones. What are they?
Sean O'Grady, over 8 years ago
The second one is Melody's Echo Chamber eponymous album
Brett Itaya, over 8 years ago Darkside! very nice
Jon Kantrowitz, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
To avoid repeats of others here are some more:
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts
Stars of The Lid - And The Refinement of Their Declien
Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary
Deftones - White Pony
Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
I'd also highly recommend checking out Michael Cina's work. He does a ton of album art for artists signed to Ghostly International/Spectral. - http://cinaart.com/
WHITE PONY FOREVER
Max Schultz, over 8 years ago
damnit was hoping somebody wouldnt beat me to the Animal Collective cover!! :)
Calum Smith, over 8 years ago
Can't believe nobody's mentioned this great one:
David Öhlin, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Peter Main, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Ronan Flynn-Curran, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
I tend to buy lots of LPs, sometimes on how good the cover art is. Mostly in the psych + metal genres. Some recent faves:
- in order of appearance - - Goat - World Music - Gnod & White Hills - II - Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Less Fault Youth - Liars - Mess _(their instagram feed is very on brand) - Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend - Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
Phil Smith, over 8 years ago Second-to-last is rad!
Kingsley Harris, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Christine Røde, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
(Just look at that face!)
(Something about this album cover just is so sweet and encapsulates the album incredibly well.)My favorite album cover of all time.
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Kyle Bavender, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
I'm sure I'm forgetting some favorites, but here are a few that come to mind:
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. It's ubiquitous, but it's ubiquitous for a reason.
Daft Punk's recent Random Access Memories. Simple and iconic.
Explosions in the Sky's Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever. Tactile, innocent — color, shape, framing are all spot on. Perfect fit for subject matter.
Sigur Rós' ( ) album. The packaging of this thing was great too.
Geoff Yuen, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Definitely Ghost in the Machine by The Police
I love the "hidden" image.
Matt Coady, over 8 years ago
I'm gonna need a hint on this one.
I did too; never knew what to make of this until I just looked it up. It's the faces of the 3 band members, each with their particular hairstyle. Sting had spiky hair back then.
Beau Hankins, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Mothership Connection (Parliament)
Cheap Thrills (Big Brother & The Holding Company)
Ericson Luciano, over 8 years ago
Since i'm totally fan of post-rock / math-rock and here may 3 awesome favorite album cover
Paul Nevin, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Some really great ones here, nice post!
Duncan Graham, over 8 years ago
so many good ones here. I'll throw in my $.02
Drew Albinson, over 8 years ago
Whether you knew it or not the other three are all by Leif Podhajsky. Look into his work if you haven't seen it!
Yeah, I linked it as the first thing I said. ;)
Moeed Mohammad, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Hell yes for Teebs.
Phil Smith, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago ) What is it with you people?! “Favorite” = one. :D
Such a great question, because so much of the opinion on the album cover depends on your opinion of the album.
I pick Local Native’s ‘Hummingbird’ because A) this photo just puts me on edge! B) I can’t get enough of this album.
Th. M, over 8 years ago
Anything Storm Thorgerson
Ruby Chen, over 8 years ago
Taipei city on a guitar :)
Erik Bue, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Hard to beat all the album art for Circa Survive, done by Esao Andrews
M. Appelman, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Christopher Hall, over 8 years ago
Pretty much everything at: http://www.projectthirtythree.com/
muhammad usman, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
The ones below I like because I also like the music by the artists:
Alex Cornell, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
One of my favorites is this Modest Mouse cover, solely for the logo on the front. What a great symbol!
Luke Dupont, over 8 years ago
So much Great stuff came out of Decoder. http://ww.thedecoderring.com/portfolio/packaging/?id=32602&p=1
Laurie Cai, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Epik High's got some awesome artwork.
Horacio Mejía, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
:D
Anthony Robertson, over 8 years ago
Hüsker Dü's Warehouse Songs and Stories
Nick Schaden, over 8 years ago
A lot of great choices here. In terms of more recent albums, I really love Andy Stott's Luxury Problems.
Andrew B, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago ) 
I've always loved Le Carousel. Great album, great cover. It just screams at me to play it :)
Account deleted over 8 years ago Here's my collection • https://www.pinterest.com/r2k/awesome-album-covers/
Alec Lomas, over 8 years ago
Portugal. The Man's Devil Say I, I Say Air
Josh Clement, over 8 years ago
My favourite *cover designer: jack vanzet
Brett Itaya, over 8 years ago 
I could be biased (Justice is one of my favorite artists).
Also, Cerulean by Baths
Alex Garey, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
I'm not cool like you guys and I can't figure out how to get my images to appear here, but I think Pretty Lights' album art work is pretty incredible.
Guilherme Nagüeva, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
Gavin Anthony, over 8 years ago (edited over 8 years ago )
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