Search results
Use Canva's free album cover maker to design awesome album covers for your music or podcasts in minutes. Choose from hundreds of templates, millions of photos and icons, and customize fonts, colors and filters.
- Brett Milano
- The Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique (design by Nathaniel Hornblower/Jeremy Shatan) This beautiful, panoramic view of Ludlow Street in NYC on the album cover of Paul’s Boutique did everything possible to put you right into the Beastie Boys’ world, making it look both funky and inviting.
- The Clash: London Calling (photo by Pennie Smith, design by Ray Lowry) A rare case where a parody (of the above Elvis cover) becomes a work of art in itself.
- Elvis Presley: Elvis Presley (design by Robertson & Fresch) RCA wasted no time in cleaning up Elvis, who’d look completely respectable on all future albums.
- The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (design by Peter Blake) Peter Blake’s pop-art assemblage on Sgt. Pepper’s famous album changed record covers forever, and kept many of us occupied for weeks trying to identify everybody at the ceremony.
- Funkadelic, ‘Maggot Brain’ (1971)
- Mary J. Blige, ‘My Life’ (1994) When she burst onto the scene in the ‘90s, Mary J. Blige wasn’t just a musical trend-setter with her groundbreaking mixture of sleek R&B and hip-hop – she provided a fashion blueprint for countless admirers and contemporaries.
- Emmylou Harris, ‘Blue Kentucky Girl’ (1979) Tapping into the same vintage vibes of Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler artwork and the 1973 blockbuster film The Sting, Blue Kentucky Girl features a simply dressed Emmylou Harris, acoustic guitar in hand, standing in front of a sepia-toned portrait of an old Kentucky saloon.
- Prince, ‘Dirty Mind’ (1980) If song titles like “Do It All Night” and “Head” weren’t enough of a clue, Prince posed half-naked in front of exposed bedsprings for the cover of his breakthrough third album Dirty Mind.
Album Art Exchange. Search over 749,000 album covers. Ridiculously obsessive. Dedicated to collecting and sharing meticulously. scanned and edited album cover art, for those of us. who are ridiculously obsessive about such things. Read the story of AAX. High Quality Album Artwork / CD Artwork.
- Elvis Presley (1956) Until the arrival of Elvis, entertainers had typically been restrained and on best behaviour while on stage. But the Mississippi singer who became known as The King threw away that rulebook, thrusting his hips in an overtly sexual style and running wild with a raw, primal energy.
- Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles (1967) While Liverpudlian pop sensations The Beatles started out as loveable mop-tops, they soon became influenced by the Sixties counterculture of pot smoking and protest, and their music started going in radical new directions.
- The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967) The first and best album by Velvet Underground, the psychedelic New York band fronted by Lou Reed, is known by fans as ‘the banana album’ due to the eye-catching illustration on its cover.
- Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (1973) Even people who’ve never heard of British rock band Pink Floyd will probably recognise the iconic cover to their 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon, which shows white light passing through a prism to create a spectrum of colours.
People also ask
What is the best album cover art?
What is the purpose of album cover art?
What are the best album covers of all time?
Who designs album cover art?
Oct 28, 2023 · While many of the most memorable album covers of the early 70s were high-concept artworks designed by the likes of Hipgnosis or Roger Dean, Roxy Music ’s approach was startlingly simple:...
Create your own album cover art with Canva's free and customizable templates. Choose from various styles, themes, features and colors to suit your genre and taste.
