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 built The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land sleeve around a wildlife photograph by Konrad Wothe after Liam Howlett abandoned an earlier doner-kebab concept. Jenkins transformed Wothe's blackback land crab image by blurring the beach and enlarging the raised claw until the small Costa Rican animal looked as confrontational as the music.
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.