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Matthew Carter, co-founder of the first major digital foundry, explains how he came to design his first…

Record sleeves are dead – long live music design!

Given the visceral feelings stirred by music, it’s time we found new, meaningful associations between…

Technology on tour. Noel Douglas talks to UVA’s Matt Clark about their sets for Massive Attack

Design meets serious music: long programme notes, small budgets and ‘de-averaging’

Gerard Saint’s Big Active is on a mission to turn music into something tangible through art direction…

Manfred Eicher’s uncompromising artistic vision has always defined the look and feel of ECM.

Fragmentation in the music industry has aided the rise of rock posters – personal, ‘unbranded’, cool…

‘Musicians are cooler than normal people, even if they’re flakey and poor!’ – Chattanooga’s…

‘I got this idea that the way they were selling these albums was ridiculous. The covers were just brown…

Form swamping content? Or a welcome new wave of graphical expression?

This Pixies box set was a chance to make brand new artwork with a student team from UCA

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones create an identity for James Lavelle’s ‘faceless’ project

Kate Moross, whirlwind force behind vinyl-only label Isomorph, explains her mission to ‘make music look…

Professor Dan Fern explains his pioneering ‘MAP / making’ course at the Royal College of Art, London.…

Graphic design’s recent concerns have for decades been at the heart of Laurie Anderson’s practice

Zoë Street Howe on the black art of ‘metal umlauts’

The scene creates the style, and sleeves tell us what their contents sound like, but what next?

The layout and art direction of music magazines reflect and champion a wide spectrum of tastes and genres.…