The art of album covers

  Looking back around twenty years there was a lot more to musicians than just their music. When it came to album covers they were more personal, interesting and groovy. Of course the times for buying vinyl have gone down considerably since then, but it is slowly on the rise again. We have seen famous artistic logos and specific fonts for album covers especially those of great bands such as the Beatles, Rolling stones, Queen etc which thankfully haven't been forgotten.

  Yet recently the individuality of musicians album covers is falling low especially as a majority of them are all very similar. Its easy getting a photographer to take original looking photos of the musician or band but its even more difficult to actually create a album cover or something that artist will be associated with for years to come. There are some modern album covers which still have that originality but most others lack the uniqueness.
 
  Its not just the creation of the cover that makes it special its also how it links into the artists own music. The best covers are those which in some way portray a visual of what that music would look like if presented on paper. Many Carlos Santana, Grateful dead, Led Zeppelin album covers have that quality along with its uniqueness. Again I'm not saying that artists back then and now don't show similarities or repellence at all. I'm saying the skill needed to create the next renown logo or album cover is high and out there. That there are those who can still do this and should but because of the dominant photography album covers they never get the chance or opportunity as they once did which is sad as in one way or another most covers on iTunes or in stores are now identical in presentation.

Carry on.