Braúlio Amado, creator of a Fall River mural, is nominated for a 2026 Grammy and designed the cover of Harry Styles' new album.
Just recently our design editor wrote about how the alternate album cover art trend was going too far. From Sabrina Carpenter to Charli XCX, it's like artists can't choose any more. The cynical among ...
Featuring a casually dressed Mr Styles out in the dark wilderness, the album has a certain undone aesthetic that's a stark ...
The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...
For a band with such an unmistakable style—eyeliner, red lipstick, black garb, tousled hair—the Cure, in frontman Robert Smith’s telling, has long resisted iconography. “I don’t want to be known for ...
Before the age of the internet and social media, it was all about album covers. And London-based art design studio Hipgnosis created some of the most iconic art, for classic rock acts such as Pink ...
Over the last 67 years, the Grammys have tweaked the rules and names of art-driven categories to reflect shifts in music ...
Gary Burden, who beginning in the late 1960s designed memorable album covers for Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, the Doors and numerous other stars of rock and folk-rock, died March 7 in Los Angeles. He ...
Utopia’s Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) grossed an estimated $10k from one engagement at NYC’s Film Forum, where it was the top-ranking pic. Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Anton ...
This category isn’t exactly new. During the first Grammys in 1959, Frank Sinatra’s “Only the Lonely” received the award for album cover. It was presented every year until 1973, when the Siegel-Schwall ...