Behind the Covers

Cover Connections

The artists, designers, photographers, labels, and themes behind 242 iconic album covers — assembled into a single searchable web of 1,351 nodes.

Start with a search, or browse by type. Each entry links straight to the story of the album it appears on. The interactive graph view for individual nodes is coming soon — for now, this is a working directory of the people, places, and ideas that recur across the archive.

Most-connected entities

The people, labels, and themes that show up across the most album stories.

artist

Kanye West

6 connections

artist

Radiohead

5 connections

designer

Peter Saville

5 connections

designer

Stanley Donwood

4 connections

photographer

Anton Corbijn

3 connections

photographer

Jonathan Mannion

2 connections

label

Columbia Records

16 connections

label

Epic Records

10 connections

tag

minimalist

82 connections

tag

photography

74 connections

Albums (242)

Every album cover in the archive, with its full story one click away.

Artists (179)

Every artist with at least one cover in the archive, ordered alphabetically.

Designers (136)

Designers and art directors credited on at least one cover. Unattributed credits are excluded.

Photographers (91)

Photographers credited on at least one cover. Unattributed credits are excluded.

Labels (130)

Record labels appearing on at least one cover. Click through to see every album we cover that shipped on that label.

Tags (481)

Themes and visual motifs tagged across the archive — useful for finding covers with shared ideas rather than shared people.

Colors (5)

Dominant colours extracted from every cover. Click through to a colour-themed collection page.

Graph generated June 6, 2026 from 242 Contentful entries.