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Album cover for the North American release of Are You Experienced (1967) by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. An album cover (also referred to as album art) is the front packaging art of a commercially released studio album or other audio recordings. The term can refer to: the printed paperboard covers typically used to package:
A gatefold cover, when folded, is the same size as a standard LP cover (i.e., a 12½-inch [32.7-centimetre] square). The larger gatefold cover provided a means of including artwork, liner notes , and/or song lyrics, which would otherwise not have fit on a standard record cover.
There have been numerous books documenting album cover art, particularly rock and jazz album covers. [8] [9] [10] Steinweiss was an art director and graphic designer who brought custom artwork to record album covers and invented the first packaging for long-playing records. [7]
Most longboxes were full color, with details about the compact disc on the back, and artwork that was frequently taken from the original square album cover art, reworked for the new shape and size. There were generic white longboxes with windows that would display the compact disc cover, as well as clear plastic versions that were an ...
The album art of other musicians has been influenced by Blue Note's covers, including Elvis Costello's Almost Blue (1981), whose cover is an homage to Burrell's Midnight Blue (1963), Van Morrison's The Skiffle Sessions – Live in Belfast (1998), which has a cover inspired by Blakey's Free for All (1965), and Aesop Rock's Float (2000), whose ...
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By about 1910, bound collections of empty sleeves with a paperboard or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as record albums that customers could use to store their records (the term "record album" was printed on some covers). These albums came in both 10-inch and 12-inch sizes.
The term is also used to denominate the outermost cardboard covering of a record, i.e. the record jacket or album jacket. The record jacket is extensively used to design and market a recording, as well as to additionally display general information on the record as artist name, titles list, title length etc. if no opening presents a readable label.