Would Sgt. Pepper's be exactly the same without Peter Blake's cover ? At a time when full-length records do not mean much any longer and album covers even less, I found interesting to make a website on sleeve design. Long before videos, record covers were the visual embodiment of music, a way to put images on sound. I remember having spent hours as a teenager detailing the cover of records while listening to them. Later on, I realised that some of them had things in common in their design, revealing either a mere sign of the times or a more deliberate connection. Some records even obviously copied famous sleeves, as a tribute or as a mockery. Here is a collection of record covers I came across, which share some common visual features.

Voyager Golden Record








Loney Dear

Dear John (2009)

Mini Mansions

The Great Pretenders (2015)

Moulded face (4)

















Roy Harper

Lifemask (1973)

Race Horses

Furniture (2012)

St Germain

Real Blues (2015)


Wonderland








Kate Bush

Never for Ever (1980)

Goatwhore

Constricting Rage of the Merciless (2014)

Band with gear








Pink Floyd

Ummagumma (back cover, 1969)

I'm from Barcelona

Growing Up is for Trees (2015)