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 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.
Cover evolution
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.
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.
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.
A young woman leaving her band behind, pressing her hands together over her mouth as if holding in a secret or a prayer. Björk's Debut announces its title with a single unguarded face. Here is how Jean-Baptiste Mondino's portrait and Me Company's design framed a new beginning.
