Album cover of the year from the Album of the Year

Dalen, What was that one cover...it was navy blue, with a white design...you'll know I hope.

Julien Neto : Le Fumeur De Ciel

you can grab the Wallpaper of this here: http://www.typerecords.com/free_things/

That Sigur Ros one is good, even though their musak ain't my thing.

right on. the packaging is even more impressive in person. the texture and paper are so rich and organic.

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this coming from a guy obsessed with watching men run around a field every weekend.

The cover for The Massacre makes me laugh.

point taken

now go knit some curtains.

It's both ugly and bad. I should know, I'm a designer. There are spacing issues all over. Look how the band's name is evenly spaced from the left and top, but the album title is not evenly spaced from the bottom and right. I could also point out running the band name and the title up to the division between the two colors, but there's actually something intentional going on there, even if it doesn't work. The projectors aren't centered vertically either, and they really need to be. And look at the yellow block of color - it actually lays over top of the shadow of the "s" in Pornographers. I know what they were going for - the colors to bleed into each side via the text, but this is really badly handled. The first thing I thought when I saw this was that someone who didn't know design had put together their own cover because the real cover art hadn't been released yet.

Anyone who has the album, can you tell me who did the "artwork"?

As for what's good, I really like the subdued artwork for Pelican's The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw.



You really have to see it in person to really enjoy it. I really like the use of the vellum with the clouds printed on it over the images of glaciers. I also really like the the entire package for the new Dave Douglas (despite numerous typos - the actual design is quite pretty.)



Again, another that you need to see in person because not only is the cover nice (great visual textures that don't come through in this small image,) the rest of the package has really nice design work. Not to mention a killer album. Best trumpet player in jazz today, no doubt about it.

I really dislike the new Broken Social Scene cover art.

you know that's my Sunday routine.

Dalen I agree with you, the new Sigur Ros is gorgeous. That album art is really nice.

what a bunch of art school bullshit.

BTW, the obvious winner for best cover:

I saw this cover and thought it was really cool:

Heh heh. You're right of course but I had fun making that post.

Sometimes facetiousness becomes sincerity through the awesome power of vague posting.

her spread with the same design in XLR8R was awesome as well.

cool design, cool dj, cool album.

I've got the degree - and it's a BA, not a BS.

haha that was clever.

When did a fucking BA make one an expert on subjectivity.

that's where the jokes on you. a degree in art means shit nowadays. pfft, especially a BA.

That's nice Dalen, especially since i'm planning on majoring in art.

If art is someones passion don't tell them it's useless, even if it's what they have a degree in. You can definitely find something to apply it to. I'm looking into art therapy, I just don't know if I can bring myself to go to school those extra years for psychology.

i'm not talking about being a passionate artist. i'm referring to those people that graduate with a degree in art [not all mind you], and then become know-it-all designers/artists.

trust me, we've interviewed at least 30 over the past few years at my work, all with design degrees, and many were piss poor, but acted like they knew everything. others that never even went to school for design were much more creative.