The CD Cover Meme is pretty terrific, challenging you to combine randomly selected Wikipedia topics, quotations, and images from Flickr into album covers. Check out some of the results. (Here’s my personal fave of the moment.) [Via Kent Christiansen]
Elsewhere in cover-land:
- Joseph Sullivan from the NY Times shares his Favorite Book Covers of 2008.
- Pitchfork offers a funny take on The 20 Worst Album Covers of 2008. (Hey man, I like the Death Cab piece.)
- Sans value judgements, The Book Cover Archive offers up a trove of inspiration.
- Cedillas + Op Art = 60’s & 70’s Brazilian Album Covers
- There’s tons to love in this Ode To Criterion Box Art.
I miss album covers. CD covers just aren’t the same.
The work of Hipgnosis and others back in the 70s are why I got into photography to begin with.
Thanks for the Book Cover Archive – I simply love book covers, more interesting than album covers these days. 12cm is not the same as 12″! And avoiding [size] inuendo’s completely is one of the covers rejected for the worst covers of the year, must be the cover least likely to be displayed prominently in a store. Ever [Amon Tobin’s].
Oddly enough in the first 250 odd covers I looked at, I have just 3 of them [I have some of the other books but with different covers]and all 3 are in a row and are for books by different authors.
This meme troubles me because many of the photos taken from Flickr are copyright protected, all rights reserved. This isn’t “fair use” and while it’s all in good fun, I don’t think it’s right to take and use other people’s work without asking, particularly when they’ve indicated they reserve their copyright to the images.
[Good points. It would be much better if the search could be constrained to items that creators have flagged with a CC license. –J.]
Interestingly the box art produced by Criterion, looks far more like Book covers than film posters. Maybe thats a refection on their similar size.
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