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 ...

From the arrival of the Beatles in the 1960s through the early 1990s, the album cover established itself as a serious art form. Then came CDs, and the artwork and its impact were diminished. These ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visual artists will be honoured at the 68th Grammy Awards 2026. Designers, photographers, and art directors will be honoured for shaping how audiences visually experience albums. The Grammy Awards ...

The album, titled “Kiss All The Time. Disco Occasionally,” had its cover designed by Bráulio Amado, a Portuguese artist based in the United States. The same artist has reportedly done graphic work for ...