Album cover designs

Here are some albums you’d buy just for the cover. I heard something about Pete Doherty painting with his own blood, I sure hope this isn’t one of those.  Coldplay‘s cover is truely way better than the ugly colored X&Y trying to look postmodern Mondriaan.  Snow Patrol do a good job both music-wise and in [...]

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Fiction Family

Switchfoot‘s Jon Foreman has teamed up with Nickel Creek‘s Sean Watkins to create Fiction Family. Below their first video which builds on Jon’s solo records he released the past year, the same easy-going style with more focus on melancholy than the epic rock sounds typical for Switchfoot. Also coming is Switchfoot’s new album, due this [...]

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Sanna Annukka

Her breakthrough came with the cover art for the 2006 release Under The Iron Sea by the britband Keane (btw, what happened to their good taste when choosing artwork for their new album?) The artwork she created almost got as much attention as the album itself and put her in the spotlight of the design community. Traditional patterns which [...]

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