20 Best Music Album Illustration

15 Jan 2010, tagged in album, Illustration, music

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People in music industry always said “just put the singer’s face on the album cover, and they will sell it like candy”. But, some musician prefer illustrations for their album cover. Though they aren’t much, some are really good. In the making of this list, we browsed many website, go to music stores and looking in our (old) CD collection. After the hard work, here are the top 20 selection of music album illustration from around the world.

Angus And Julia Stone - A Book Like This. Designed by : IOSHVA

Pure Saturday - Time For a Change, Time To Move On. Designed by : Labyrindira

Pearl Jam - Backspacer. Designed by : Dan Perkins aka. Tom Tomorrow

My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge. Designed by : Gerard Way

Muse - The Resistance. Designed by : LaBoca

Mike Monday - Songs Without Words. Designed by : Seb Godfrey

Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion. Designed by : Mika, Yasmine Penniman aka. Dawack, Richard Hogg

Michael Jackson - Dangerous. Designed by : Mark Ryden

Menomena - Friend And Foe. Designed by : Craig Thompson

Madvillain - Madvillainy 2 : The Box. Designed by : Jeff Jank

Groove Armada - Soundboy Rock. Designed by : eBoy

Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown. Designed by : Chris Bilheimer

Efterklang - Under Giant Trees. Designed by : Nan Na Hvass

Duran Duran - Rio. Designed by : Patrick Nagel

Ministry of Sound - Clubbers Guide To 2007. Designed by : Kristofer Strom

Blur - Think Tank. Designed by : Banksy

Blur - The Best of. Designed by : Julian Opie

Beastie Boys - To The 5 Boroughs. Designed by : Matteo Pericoli

Architecture In Helsinki - Places Like This. Designed by : Will Sweeney

You Am I - Dilettantes. Designed by : Ken Taylor

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http://00hypodermic00.deviantart.com wickana

♥ for mark ryden. he’s the best!! yayy
http://ncus.me Kuswanto

The album art is epic. It’s very detailed in its age.
http://www.yellowpulp.com yellowpulp

Nice albums! I want to add Keane’s Under the iron sea album. If you’re a fan of album art you can check this site http://sleevage.com, they have albums designed by great artist.
http://ncus.me Kuswanto

Thanks for the link. Maybe one day we are going to make another round up.
http://twitter.com/narayafr Naraya

Nice website!
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http://twitter.com/narayafr Naraya

I heart Madvillain – Madvillainy 2
akuna

You should check out Trevor Jackson’s album art

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/kyle-riabko-boots-factor-are/id284398388
http://b0z.blogspot.com/ Harlah Zuum

I routinely find album art to be of very high quality, all the more impressive when you think that the majority of the work must’ve gone into the music. These are some great examples.

Just goes to show that there is something to be said for creating a total package even in this day in age when album art is much less in the public eye because of digital formats.

I think often times the art that is created for albums is just as much for the artists as it is for the fans. Allowing them to put a visual representation to there musical work.
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http://esoterichandprint.wordpress.com/ esoteric

great post…im lovin the blur one…great design by banksy…the madvillain cover rocks too…thanks for the post…
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http://www.thetrackstudio.com The Track Studio

these are pretty cool. we did an album with some sick artwork by a band called baroness. sweet blog
http://www.built4beats.com beats

all of these covers stand out from the rest of the album covers that I’ve seen, pretty tcool to put all of them at once for us to see them
http://bestguitarist.info Best Guitarist

Wow, that’s cool :D Really love it!
http://gitarmini.com Miniatur Gitar

Wah, keren2 ya cover albumnya :) Patut ditiru pemusik2 dalam negeri nih
http://michaeljacksoncostumesite.com/ Cassy

This album art is amazing!! Thank you so much for posting it. I think album art is definitely better than just the artist’s face.
http://audiotechnicaheadphonesinfo.com Koert D. Dam

Album cover says much about the music as well as the artist himself. I appreciate those artists who have given much attention and detail to make the cover very artistic and appealing. Thanks.
http://proteinpulver.org Lasse Kjaer

These are very nice covers and quite creative. The Pure Saturday one is my favorite. It looks very much like the cover of those lovely picture books my mom used to read to me when I was a kid.

For music albums, though, I personally prefer seeing the singers’ faces on the covers. Maybe the creative pictures could have been a backdrop? But that’s just me.
Michael Sakai

Disturbed, Asking Alexandria (Reckless and Relentless) and Hollywood Undead is better than all of these.

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