She was in the vanguard of female designers who looked to the past to upend the cool modernism of the ’70s with a style that became prominent in the ’80s. By Penelope Green Carin Goldberg, a ...

Taylor Swift has set the internet on fire with the announcement of her upcoming record, The Life of a Showgirl. From the concept to the color palette, everything about the album cover has been widely ...

Carin Goldberg, a graphic designer whose pathbreaking work included covers for Madonna’s first album and thousands of books, including a series of Kurt Vonnegut paperbacks that reinvigorated the ...

Only an artist forged in the fires of Myspace would consistently have album titles more apt as vague status updates.

CDPR senior graphic designer Irina Moraru recently designed two snazzy Cyberpunk 2077 skins for Alienware's m15 and m17 gaming laptops. We got ahold of a Q&A session with Moraru that revealed some ...

Frank Kozik, a graphic artist who created album covers and later turned his talents toward designing collectibles and toys, died Saturday. He was 61. Kozik’s death was confirmed on his official ...

Before the age of the internet and social media, it was all about album covers. And London-based art design studio Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic art, for classic rock acts such as Pink ...

Led Zeppelin’s 1969 self-titled debut, often referred to as Led Zeppelin I, introduced the world to a new rock outfit that already had its stuff together. Featuring their distinctive sound—a medley of ...

Hubris, lack of taste, massive amounts of drugs: There are many reasons for terrible album covers. This gallery collects 50 of the worst. Enter the carnival tent to witness the monstrosities, the ...

After covering delving into the covers of The Beatles’ Abbey Road and Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, we might as well jump into the story of a Van Halen album cover. Graphic designer Margo Nahas ...

Music isn’t just about the music. Yes, the sounds are certainly the most essential element, but a lot of other things go into making an album a classic. Almost since the full-length album format began ...

Stefan Sagmeister, a celebrated designer best known for creating album covers for the Rolling Stones and David Byrne, is being feted with a major retrospective. The exhibition is a homecoming of sorts ...