3 cover stories in our archive
Behind the Covers' archive includes 3 album covers documented under the "digital art" design theme, spanning the 1980s, 1990s, 2010s. These covers sit within the r&b, electronic, alternative tradition and feature work by FKA twigs, The Prodigy, New Order. Each entry below includes the cover artwork, the designers and photographers behind it, and a short story about the visual choices that defined the release.
Jesse Kanda created LP1's uncanny portrait from photographs of FKA twigs, sculpting and altering her head in 3D, changing texture and lighting, and then painting over the image. Release credits name FKA twigs and Phil Lee for design and Kanda for photography.
Alex Jenkins turned a sourced dancing-crab photograph into The Prodigy's confrontational 1997 sleeve after Liam Howlett rejected a photographed doner-kebab concept at the last minute. Jenkins enlarged the raised claw until the tiny beach animal looked like it was giving the world a rude gesture.
Peter Saville's cover for New Order's Technique features a single lemon against stark white space, created using revolutionary computer imaging technology. The deceptively simple fruit became one of the most minimalist and mysterious album covers of the late 1980s.