What is your favourite album cover? “1. Limp Bizkit – Significant Other; 2. Korn – Issues; 3. Papa Roach – Infest; 4. Trivium – Ascendancy; 5. Staind – Break The Cycle.”...
Andrea Bianchi — Milan, Italy
What is your favourite album cover? “The easy answer for me, being a jazz fan, would be to choose a random Blue Note cover. Those artworks feature an extraordinary use of typography, layout and colour, especially considering the simple tools they had. Stepping away from clichés, I would say my favourite album cover is Skin by Flume. Featuring an amazing...
Max Lippolis — Salerno, Italy
How do music and design come together during your creative process? “Always! I live for music every day, it helps me concentrate. It’s essential to my creative process. In the design studio, where you are trapped for 12+ hours a day, I was the one who played my playlist for the room. Since I didn’t listen to just one type...
Luke Brown — Melbourne, Australia
What is your favourite album cover? “1. New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies by Peter Saville. 2. Autechre – Quaristice by The Designers Republic.”...
Vanessa Lenka Katyi-Narr — Graz, Austria
What is your favourite album cover? “Jazz pianist Erroll Garner’s Concert By The Sea.”...
Beppe Conti — Turin, Italy
What is your favourite album cover? “I love all the covers for Radiohead, designed by Stanley Donwood.”...
Jimmy Turrell — London, UK
What is your favourite album cover? “It changes all the time for me but Apex Twin’s Richard D James and Grace Jones’s Island Life are total classics.”...
Pragun Agarwal — Baltimore, US
What is your favourite album cover? “I’m a big fan of all the Pink Floyd album covers.”...
bend — Athens, Greece
What is your favourite album cover? “You cannot separate a cover from its content, especially when it comes to music. A favourite album is usually a combination of many things. Design is one step in a bigger experiential sequence of many things such as the age, the moment, the company, the sentimental state you are in, etc. If we had...
Julius Manalo — Toronto, Canada
What is your favourite album cover? “I’ve liked many album covers, but my very first favourite was Linkin Park’s Living Things album art.”...
Studio Another Day — Nijmegen, The Netherlands
“If you work for musicians it is important that the design is a reflection of the product they created. We always talk with the artist about their motivation and feelings about the project. But most important is the music itself. We see the design process as an autonomous one in which the music is a guideline for the final design.”...
Afonso de Lima — Sapiranga, Brazil
What is your favourite album cover? “I would choose the album cover for Ansiedade na Cidade by Brazilian band Catavento. The graphic design was by the artists Leonardo Lucena and Leonardo Sandi, both designers who are a reference point for me and important figures in the independent music scene in Rio Grande do Sul. Their art has unique characteristics.”...