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.

Floating








Alain Bashung

Fantaisie Militaire (1998)

Stephan Eicher & Traktorkestar

Hüh! (2019)

Brown chess








Het Goede Doel

Tempo Doeloe (1983)

Manuel Göttsching

E2-E4 (1984)

Howl








Songs: Ohia

The Magnolia Electric Co (2003)

Kevin Morby & Waxahatchee

Farewell Transmission b​/​w The Dark Don't Hide It (single) (2018)