Behind the Album (Hardcover)

Featuring 21 designers and studios passionate about music, this collection showcases the best in album design across a myriad of genres. Paired with insightful interviews and essays, the projects in <i>Behind the Album</i> illustrate each designer's vision from concept to cover. <p> <b>Includes designers such as: </b> </p><p> <b>Lawrence Azerrad</b> - Has designed albums for top acts such as Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication) and Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) and also wrote the foreword to the book. <br> <b>Stefan Sagmeister</b> - No contemporary survey would be complete without the inclusion of Sagmeister's stunning album cover designs for Lou Reed, David Byrne, The Rolling Stones and beyond. <br> <b>Aubrey Powell</b> - Much of Powell's best known work is photographically motivated (Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap), but perhaps his best known, most recognized cover for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon was a brilliant response to the band's dictate of a design with NO Photography. <br> <b>Pilar Zeta</b> - She started from a digital synthetic style of design, but realized her breakout opportunity by designing Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams by taking a collaborative handmade organic approach with the band's input. <br> Although <b>Weirdcore</b> is inextricably linked to the bizarre stylings of Aphex Twins, his conceptual work for acts such as Le Dom and Dopplereffekt are equally impactful. <br> <b>Michael Cina's</b> cerebral, impressionistic works for Ghostly Records is beyond description, see it for yourself within these pages.</p>