As vinyl sleeves grew into larger creative canvases, musicians in the 1970s increasingly turned to visionary photographers, ...

Music videos in the 1980s were to music what the album cover art of the 1970s was to musicians. You bought hook, line, and sinker into these albums based on their cover art, not the snippets you might ...

Over the last 67 years, the Grammys have tweaked the rules and names of art-driven categories to reflect shifts in music ...

There’s something about these 80s album covers that just sticks with us. Whether it’s their sex appeal, their boundary-breaking nature, or their trend-setting illustrations, these covers would look ...

Charli XCX's Brat, arguably the most impactful album artwork in recent memory, took home the Grammy earlier this year for Best Recording Package. That category recognizes the album cover design, and ...

With the Grammys reviving a long-dormant category for album covers, visual artists and musicians talk about what it means to ...

Well, they can’t all be winners. Some album covers are just weird enough to be visually interesting to both fans and non-fans alike. However, there have been a few creative choices through the years ...

After more than fifty years, the Grammy Awards will once again honor the creative work behind album covers, with a new ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The album sounds like a homecoming release of sorts, an artist recognizing her roots, having recently conquered the world with No. 1 singles and albums. While she’s very much a peak performer in the ...