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.

Red dress girl with a leopard in various settings











Cowboy Junkies

The Nomad Series Volume 1: Renmin Park (2010)

Cowboy Junkies

The Nomad Series Volume 2: Demons (2010)











Cowboy Junkies

The Nomad Series Volume 3: Sing in my Meadow (2011)

Cowboy Junkies

The Nomad Series Volume 4: The Wilderness (2012)







Cowboy Junkies

The Nomad Series Boxset (2012)


Raised fist












Dominique Grange

La Pègre EP (1968)

The Chemical Brothers

Push the Button (2005)


The sound machine (2)











Don Ellis

Live at Montreux (1978)

Beastie Boys

The Mix-up (2007)










The Herbaliser

Same as it Never Was (2008)

Owl City

Mobile Orchestra (2015)