Behind the Covers

Björk

4 album covers in our archive

Björk is featured in Behind the Covers' archive with 4 album covers spanning the 2000s and 1990s. Released across One Little Indian, the artwork sits in the electronic, alternative, pop, rock tradition. Each cover is documented in our archive with design notes covering portrait, digital manipulation, crystalline, intimate, organic, minimalist. Below you'll find the full story behind each Björk cover — designers, photographers, label history, and the visual choices that defined the release.

Vespertine by Björk — album cover art

Vespertine (2001)

Björk's face emerges from crystalline growths in this haunting cover that took months to create using cutting-edge digital manipulation. The image perfectly captures the album's intimate winter atmosphere through revolutionary photography techniques.

Label
One Little Indian
Designer
Me Company
Photographer
Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Genre
Electronic, Alternative
Decade
2000s
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Homogenic by Björk — album cover art

Homogenic (1997)

Björk's face emerges from a sculptural ruff collar like a futuristic Elizabethan portrait, created through painstaking digital manipulation that took months to perfect. The image merged high fashion with alien beauty, establishing a new template for electronic music artwork.

Label
One Little Indian
Designer
Me Company
Photographer
Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
Genre
Electronic, Alternative
Decade
1990s
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Post by Björk — album cover art

Post (1995)

On 1 April 1995, Björk stood in Piccadilly Circus in a jacket made of airmail envelope paper, surrounded by giant postcards. The cover of Post turned homesickness into design: a woman trying to mail herself back to Iceland.

Label
One Little Indian
Designer
Paul White
Photographer
Stéphane Sednaoui
Genre
Pop, Electronic, Alternative
Decade
1990s
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