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.
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Jimmy Cliff The Harder They Come (1972) |
Joe Strummer The Harder They Come (2009) |
Lotek International Rudeboy (2011) |
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Paul Cusick Focal Point (2009) |
Kyasma Symphony for Technology (2012) |
Saga 20/20 (2012) |
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Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience (2013) |
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 (2013) |
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - The Complete Experience (2013) |
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Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience (Deluxe) (2013) |
Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2 (Deluxe) (2013) |
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XTC
Oranges and Lemons (1989) |
The Nice Boys
The Nice Boys (2006) |
