Landmark Album Cover Art

Sgt. Pepper cut-out collage by Peter Blake won a Grammy for cover design in 1968 and made the sleeve part of the art.

Warhol banana for the Velvet Underground, Hipgnosis prism for Dark Side of the Moon and the pulsar data plot on Unknown Pleasures became design icons worn on t-shirts worldwide. Blue Note used Reid Miles typography and Francis Wolff photography to give jazz a visual identity.

The compact disc era shrank the canvas, and vinyl revival brought the 12 inch cover back as an art object..