The Damned – The Black Album (Chiswick, 1982)
Design by Phil Smee At Waldo’s

Crass – Christ: the Album (Crass, 1982)
Design by Crass At Existencil Press

New Order – Blue Monday (Factory, 1983)
Design by Peter Saville Associates

Metallica – Metallica (Elektra, 1991)
Design by Metallica

Jay-Z – The Black Album (Roc-A-Fella/Island Def Jam, 2003)
Design by Robert Sims

Tags: art, black, cover art, design, metallica, music, new order, the damned.

Judas Priest – Killing Machine (CBS, 1978)
Design by Roslav Szaybo, Photo by Bob Elsdale

Mötley Crüe – Too Fast For Love (Elektra, 1982)

Whitesnake – Slide It In (Liberty, 1984)
Design by Manfred Brey, Photo by Jurgen Barron Reisch

Accept – Balls To The Wall (Portrait, 1983)

Tags: accept, art, design, judas priest, leather, music, whitesnake.

Vinyls of Asia always amaze me when I see them in car boot sales, so here is a little introduction to the artist who made them.
Roger Dean is an artist, architect and designer (his “retrait pod” is featured in Clockwork Orange) whose work mostly deals with fantasy and sci-fi.
Mostly known for the covers he made for progressive rock bands such as YES and ASIA always featuring fantastic landscapes and creatures and crazy typework, he also did most of the covers for the video game development house Psygnosis (responsible for Barbarian, Shadow of the Beast and many other classics…) and of course their logo.

YES, he also did TETRIS.

Special bonus ; Roger’s house.

Tags: architecture, art, Asia, cover, Dean, design, fantasy, painting, Roger, Yes.