A good album cover adheres to basic design principles. A great album cover has a layer of cultural commentary. And a fantastic album cover understands both while maybe breaking some rules.

Nearly 50 years after the category was renamed to Best Recording Package, the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover is making its ...

Braúlio Amado, creator of a Fall River mural, is nominated for a 2026 Grammy and designed the cover of Harry Styles' new ...

Bad Bunny spotlighted the monobloc chair on the cover of his Grammy-winning album – this is how it became (in)famous ...

Tyler, the Creator's 'Chromakopia' won the first-ever awared for Best Album Cover at the 2026 Grammy Awards, with the award going to Tyler Okonma under his real name.

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 ...

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 ...

Joy Feuer insists that she has always seen the sound of music and the images behind it as inseparable. From the looks of the crowds pouring into the Art of Music Experience at the Orange County Fair ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google is preparing dramatically redesigned album covers for Google Photos. The design changes follow Google’s Material 3 Expressive design. Some key action buttons have moved. Google is preparing a ...