as chosen by a panel of judges from the music and design industry – including CR editor Patrick Burgoyne. One album cover has been selected from each year, dating back to 1949, which is represented by ...

The band's use of elaborate light shows during their concerts made the minimal but striking design of the cover appropriate while also connecting to the album's themes of the light and dark of the ...

To those coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s, album cover designer Vaughan Oliver created not only the look of the influential British record label 4AD, but conjured an imaginary realm that would ...