One album cover has been selected from each year ... as well as Kraftwerk’s Autobahn (described by Peter Saville as his inspiration for pursuing a career in graphic design). As you’d expect there’s ...

Joy Division's seminal album Unknown Pleasures celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2019, with 6 Music's Mary Anne Hobbs devoting an entire show to the classic LP and playing the record on vinyl and ...

The Data-Viz Story Behind Joy Division’s Legendary Album Cover In 1979, designer Peter Saville created an iconic album cover from an unlikely source: the first pulsar reading.

Peter Saville's reimagining of his cover art ... Saville's original cover for the 1979 album was based on the radio emissions from a pulsar Saville, who became a CBE in the 2019 New Year's Honours ...

Here are 60 awful metal album covers. Whether it's cheesy '80s drawings or some very recent works by prominent bands, selecting album art always comes with inherent risk. Art is subjective ...

Here are 50 of the most controversial hard rock and metal album covers of all time. Rock and metal are no strangers to provocation, whether it's a deliberate attempt to be shocking for the sake of ...

Charli XCX’s Mercury-nominated album Brat is as well known for its cover art as it is for its boldly irreverent music. A slime green square with the album title spelt out in blurry lowercase ...

As well as the main symbol, Sedgwick has designed a set of circular graphics, each reflecting an era from the 1950s onwards, and directly inspired by some of the archive’s album covers and ... design ...

Graphic designer Peter ... Saville came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as Factory, the label he founded with Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, took off. His designs for albums ...

she picks apart the tricky sexual politics of the group’s notorious cover art for *This is Hardcore* In an exclusive extract from the new book, FAC 461 Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album, ...

1. The Who – Who’s Next (1971) The Who’s fifth studio album is an absolute belter, featuring Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again and Behind Blue Eyes. Who’s Next was originally ...