Artwork is still a bit last century

Posted by: Guido Fawkes on 16 March 2012

Why is the art work for an album restricted to a square that resembles a CD cover why can it not be a bit more interesting? 


Ogden's Nut Gone Flake had a really interesting cover both on the vinyl record and is the CD sweet tin, but when we switch to computer audio we get a boring old square.


Led Zeppelin III had a super cover


Bark by Jefferson Airplane came in a dustbin bag complete with instructions on what you could do with it. 


Embryo's first album had a balloon and you could peel the banana on the Velvet Underground and Nico. 


Brain Salad Surgery is now flat. 

 

And what about gatefold sleeves - I think we need some better software that lets you get album art the way it used to be - far more three dimensional representations. 


So let's get away from the square world and have bit of variety. 


Surely with new technology it should be more interesting not less - where's my Roger Dean poster to hang on the wall?