You never know when you might want to make a design to share on social media. If you work on your design chops you’ll be able to make your own show posters, memes, album announces and more. But getting good at design isn’t easy and it takes a certain kind of design-minded person...
Album artis still important. But the truth is, it’s usually an afterthought in the creative process especially with AI album art generators promising to make things easy. It makes sense—you spend enough time honing your music and probably don’t have time to become a Photoshop wiz too. Th...
Best tools and software for designing album covers Whether you’re an experienced album cover designer or taking your first steps, there are a variety of tools that can help you craft a good album cover. For beginners, platforms like Canva offer free, customizable templates that are easy to u...
Picking a list of The 50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years is hardly an easy task, but it's one that reveals a lot about how these album covers work. Especially in the context of recent pop releases—Katy Perry's Prism, Lady Gaga's ARTPOP, Sky Ferreira's Night Time, ...
Flavorwire titles their post on album covers designed by artist Andy Warhol---auteur of that special brand of late-midcentury, impassive yet rocking-and-rolling, New York-rooted American cool---“Beyond the Banana.' They refer, of course, to the fruit em
In addition to thinking about the inspiration for your own work, it’s always helpful to think about who you admire and draw ideas from their work. What are some album covers that you are drawn to? What do you like about them? Be sure to take some notes—combined with your identity no...
So, it would be easy to say that "The Zealot Gene," the title track, is modeled on Donald Trump, but thatistoo easy. It could be one of half a dozen people who immediately spring to mind, who are national leaders of a pretty aggressive and unpleasant sort, who epi...
When the band came out of the gate with “Remove Your Skin Please,” listeners were quick to draw comparisons to other noise rock weirdos of that time period. However, now you'd be hard-pressed to draw any 1:1 comparison. "I Am Dog Now" perfectly encapsulates the mashup of disparate...
Album covers are always fun projects to work on. In today’s tutorial we will take a look at the step-by-step process of creating a conceptual album cover in Photoshop. Let's get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Puzzle Texture...
What holds this restless cast together is Knopfler's wizened presence. His voice has always had an ageless yetvery aged quality. Even on his earliest singles with Dire Straits, Knopfler came off like this knowing sage. The only drawback toOne Deep River, if it even is one, is that he ...