Definition
An Album Cover is the front publishing of a commercially released audio recording product, or album.
Columbia records hired Alex Steinweiss as its first art director, in 19368. Alex Steinweiss is credited with inventing the concept of album covers and art.
this is some of Alex steinweiss' first work on album covers, with these album cover it replaced the the original cardboard inslip.
All of his covers seem to be very abstract and as eye catching as possible. The font and size varies in each album cover giving it its own personality and own uniqueness to the artist. Because Alex steinweiss making the first album cover, a lot of other major music companies started to follow the trend. Towards the 1960s album covers started to become a lot more creative and developing a lot quicker with the technology, By adding a lot more cartoon images on the cover. One of the famous album cover with a cartoon front cover is The Beatles 'Yellow Submarine
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