2009 Best Album Covers
The Album cover is a huge part of pop culture history.
During the eighties and nineties, album covers began to lose meaning… what had originally been a visual representation of the body of work contained on the record became just another sales tactic, marketing-driven graphics hoping to convince impulse buyers to purchase the CD.
Now that more people are buying music online and fewer on an impulse based on the album cover, most album art is hardly seen at all.
However, the cool thing is that now that visual marketing has less value in record sales, there seems to be a beginning of resurgence in album cover as art… and more talent is required to create album covers that may only be seen as a thumbnail by most.
Here are a few of my favorites from this year. (more…)
