"Visual Storytelling through Memorable Album Covers" shares best practices for creating striking cover designs that visualize music, express an artist's personality, and grab your attention. In the digital era, album design is alive and well. Album cover art forms the basis of artists' identities, permeating all the ways artists express their brands, ranging from tour merchandise to their social spaces. "Visual Storytelling through Memorable Album Covers" provides examples from classic rock musicians such as the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and contemporary bands such as Goldfrapp and the National.

1. Visual Storytelling through
Memorable Album Covers
David J. Deal
Instagram.com/davidjdeal
December 2013; Revised August 2014

2. Memorable album covers do at
least one of three things well

3. Visualize the music

4. Capture the personality of the artist

5. Grab your attention

6. Here are some examples . . .

7. Golden oldies

8. Band portraits

9. Artful design

10. The beauty of ugly

11. The power of mystique

12. Poetic outlaws

13. All attitude

14. Daring

15. Urban cool

16. Sex appeal

17. Less is more

18. Album covers serve a different
purpose in the digital era

19. Today, album cover art doesn’t stop with the album –
it reinforces an artist’s image everywhere . . .

20. . . . On the album . . .
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21. . . . In concert . . .

22. . . . On merchandise . . .

23. . . . Outdoors and indoors . . .

24. . . . As user-generated content . . .

25. . . . everywhere music is accessed digitally

26. Notable album covers from the present day

27. Notable album covers from the present day

28. Notable album covers from the present day

29. Notable album covers from the present day

30. Notable album covers from the present day

31. Thank You
David Deal
davidjdeal@gmail.com